Challenges of Traditional Crafts Centers In Egypt

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Abstract

Traditional crafts are considered the most important pillar of any 
country's tangible legacy. In Egypt, some of special properties for 
traditional crafts that are in each region have its own distinctive 
traditional crafts that belong to centuries long ago. Through sequence 
of periods, these crafts attracted people who are interested in Egyptian 
legacy, from all over the world. Moreover, there were individual and 
infrequent attempts resulted in opening markets for those valuable and 
high quality products. We have seen how Chinese recently affected 
cultural manufactures field and this expression means what is related 
to traditional crafts in all over the world. In later titles, we will 
elaborate in details the cooperation between China and Culture 
Ministry of Egypt, regarding this point and its shortcomings. 
Furthermore, we have to shed light on the role of state institutions in 
protecting traditional crafts and how they promote them, in 
comparison to the role of civil society institutions in regard to this 
field. We are going to have a commentary on each following theme, 
deducing results and recommended solutions.
The Egyptian traditional handicrafts are the result of the cumulative 
experiences of the community which reflects the cultural heritage of 
the individuals and their relationships with one another, with the 
available resources and also with the surrounded environment. These 
traditional handicrafts are varied according to many issues, but in 
general the result is always artistic and fascinating.

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