Contemporary Egyptian Jewellery

Contemporary designs by Egyptian students in a European-Egyptian exhibition in Cairo

An exhibition featuring innovative jewellery pieces will open from 9 to 12 May in Cairo. This exhibition is the first of a series of exhibitions between Cairo and Aswan to showcase the designs of 45 Egyptian students who took place in an initiative by Azza Fahmy Jewellery co-funded by the European Union (EU).

Nubre, a Azza Fahmy Jewellery initiative and the first private sector company to support students with a passion for design. Nubre, which means design in the Nubian language, is the first private sector initiative to support students with passion for design. It was launched initially with the core purpose of enforcing a "design culture" in Egypt and creating a bridge between local and European students.

The most significant outcome of this project is that the students would get the opportunity to showcase their talents by exhibiting their work to the public. Moreover, the Azza Fahmy Foundation will also offer the best students the opportunity to work on Azza Fahmy future design projects, in addition to multiple financial prizes and recognition.

Prior to the exhibition, four workshops were held in Aswan under the theme "Linking Heritage to Contemporary Design" with designers coming from some of the best Jewellery design schools in Europe especially for the workshops. The main focus of was finding inspiration, recognising it, understanding it and then knowing what to do with it. During the workshops, the students worked on their design concepts using materials from the environment, while corresponding with their instructors in the European design schools after the workshops. Following that, Azza Fahmy and her team worked with the students to transform those concepts into actual pieces of Jewellery.