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After having lived for almost a quarter of a century in Paris, Henein returned to live in the country of his birth. For over a decade, he produced a number of unique granite sculptures. It was in Aswan, a city that since
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Henein received Egypt’s State Medal, the State Merit Award, and the
Mubarak Award in art. He also established the International Granite Sculpture Symposium in Aswan. El-Shorouk Publishing House and Skira Publishing Group published a complete book about his life and works.
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Throughout the years his body of work is the way in which the artist interweaves universal themes—motherhood, birds, boats and prayer among them—with references to
Egyptian icons such as pyramids, obelisks, Pharaonic kings and hieroglyphs.
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in 1971, Henein began to explore painting. In both his paintings and his sculptures, he gained recognition for the use of ancient
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It features the artist's "life of creativity" and includes the largest, and ever-growing, collection of Henein’s sculptures as well as some of his paintings.
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Saturday 18 January 2014 in Cairo's Al-Harraniya district, is a priceless gift from the artist himself to the country.
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He converted to Isalm in 1961 when he met his wife, Afaf el Dib; he changed his name to Adam. Henein died on 22 May 2020, he was 91 years old.
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