AUTHOR Fadwa Attia from Egypt

Fadwa Attia is an Egyptian creative figure whose work moves confidently between thought and emotion, combining deep cultural awareness with a refined artistic and literary sensitivity. As an interior designer, visual artist, photographer, poet, and critic, she presents a rich and multifaceted vision rooted in heritage, identity, and human feeling. Her writings reflect a continuous dialogue between art and life, drawing inspiration from the depth of Egyptian civilization and the universal language of love. Through her critical articles, artistic practice, and poetic texts, she affirms the importance of cultural identity as a living source that nourishes creativity across generations. Her presence in exhibitions, publications, and cultural forums locally and internationally highlights her commitment to art as a message of awareness, beauty, and continuity. With a voice that balances intellect and emotion, Fadwa Attia offers work that connects heritage with the present moment and invites the reader and viewer into a sincere, flowing conversation with art, culture, and the human soul.

Identity and Love: Reflections and Romantic Poems

writing about identity

Do the arts now in all fields need identity?
Yes, it is the difficult equation from ancient times to the present time. We need identity with its features.

These features were formed by different cultures, which it started from the ancient civilizations of the ancient Egyptians, until we reach the present time. All of this, as I said in my previous articles, made identity formed from ideas and culture, so it became a cultural reference.

The identity thesis became important in theatre, cinema, fine art, and others.

But after I presented solutions to preserve identity, which is one of the basics of heritage, cultural heritage and other things, we need a lot to know the importance of our identity that we have missed, and to continue our dialogue.

Solutions necessary to preserve identity

After training cadres and developing systematic plans for the coming years through strategic planning by specialists and researchers in these various fields, various seminars to introduce identity, in general.

Then, there is a taste of identity from the receiving audience, whether it is trainees from the cadres who carry out strategic planning, as well as the public that we educate, through cultural and artistic seminars, producing short and documentary films about identity.

As well as holding conferences from which it issues books and exhibitions calling for the preservation of identity, its elements and features.

Also, the media coordinates with him through the responsible state’s channels through various programmes, which demands the preservation of identity, its history and culture, through the Internet and also through satellite channels and television programmes.

This makes the preservation of identity continuous and never-ending.

Which brings us to one truth: Identity is a homeland that we cannot do without. My identity is from within my homeland, from within the cultural and artistic heritage. From within our features, our art, and our heritage are like an inexhaustible river.

We need a lot and a lot so that our identity from which our art emerges is not lost, and so that there is not a crisis in the loss of our identity. We are peoples with civilizations that have roots. We cannot dispense with our civilizations and our history. We need to support ourselves by preserving identity by all possible means.

Therefore, we continue our simple, enjoyable dialogue about identity through true, sincere art, and we have a new dialogue that we will continue in new articles later, with you with love and respect from our beloved Egypt.

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Fadwa Attia Mohamed Aly Salah Eldin

Interior designer, visual artist, photographer, poet, critic, member of the Syndicate of Applied Arts Designers, working member of the Cairo Atelier for Writers and Artists, and winner of the Creative Woman Award in 2019 from the Ministry of Culture.

She also won the Jury Award at the Seventh Nile Salon. She won the second republic in theatrical decoration at the level of the General Federation of Young Workers in 2002. She participated in previous sessions of the General Exhibition, the Fifth Republic from the Ministry of Information, the People’s Arts Exhibition, and the Eighth Port Said Biennale.

She received honors from Morocco twice, Algeria once, and Tunisia once. She has 9 solo exhibitions of her own. She received a shield from the Suez Canal Authority for donating a painting to the new Suez Canal Museum.

She participated in more than fifty group exhibitions inside and outside Egypt in Sweden, Finland, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Italy, India, South Korea, Venezuela, and Panama.

She currently has critical articles in the Daily Global Nation in Bangladesh, Iraq, Egypt, Kosovo, and Australia. She participated in the Salloum Ceremonies Forum in 2023 AD and in a group exhibition at the Salloum Ceremonies Forum in Al-Hanager.

She was honored by the Media Excellence Festival in 2018 AD for her work as a commissioner and owner of the exhibition Pioneers of Egyptian Media. She designed many theater decorations for more than 20 plays, most notably the play “Key to This is Comfortable” and the play “The Trial of Naguib Mahfouz.”

She was the assistant director to the great Samir Al-Asfouri in the Spotlight program.
She was responsible about Fadwa Attia’s Art and Life Initiative for free to Allah.