Overlooked No More: Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian Artist of the People
Overlooked No More: Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian Artist of the People She was born into the aristocracy but became an activist for commoners while depicting social injustices in her paintings. Inji Efflatoun in her studio in Cairo. She rejected her aristocratic background and painted the plights of working-class Egyptians.Credit...Safar Khan Gallery By Myrna Ayad Published April 29, 2021Updated May 3, 2021 This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. It was while she was in prison that the Egyptia...
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