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Dubbed as the "pottery lady," hundreds of Egyptians took to social media to mourn the death of a Swiss lady that had been living amongst them for the pa
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Fayoum’s Tourism Authority announced that one of the province’s most beloved residents, Swiss artist Evelyne Porret, passed away aged 81.
Porret was a longtime resident of Fayoum’s Tunis Village, one of the province’s most popular tourist destinations. She first visited the village in the early 1960s when she was in Egypt to see her father, a Christian missionary stationed in Cairo at the time.
On her first visit to Fayoum, she was accompanied by the renowned Egyptian lyricist Sayed Hegab, who she would later end up marrying.
Having dabbled in pottery back home, she made regular visits to ceramics workshops all over Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s, before permanently moving to Egypt in the 1980s to launch the Ptah Association for Training Urban and Rural Children in Ceramic Works, which remains the largest pottery school in Fayoum.