Nahdet Misr: A Sculpture That Embodies Egypt At A Glance

Nahdet Misr: A Sculpture That Embodies Egypt At A Glance

Nahdet Misr photograph | Cover for “Return of the Spirit” by Twafik el-Hakim, AUC Press 2012.Granite catches the light and a felaha looks across the Cairo University Bridge. She is one of two figures immortalized in sculpture, known as Nahdet Misr, or Egypt’s Renaissance: woman and sphinx, a pair who summarize the essence of Egypt at a glance.The statue was initially inaugurated in Ramses Square in 1928, later moved to where it is now – the Nahd…