The youngest artist, department head, supervises 1st sculpture exhibition in "Benha Applied"

Dr. Sara A. Abdoh Mohamed, Professor and Head of the Department of Sculpture, Architectural Formation and Restoration at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University, who is the youngest head of the department in the faculties of fine and applied arts in Egyptian universities, held an exhibition of sculptural works entitled “Art is Life” sponsored by Dr. Gamal Soussa, and was inaugurated this month by Dr. Abdel-Moamen Shams El-Din Al-Qarnafeli, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University.

Dr. Sara A. Abdoh Mohamed supervised the exhibition of students of the Department which included male and female students’ works and some distinguished graduation projects for the past year in the college in participation with a number of teaching assistants in the department, and confirmed that the exhibition is the first for the department over the past years due to the cessation of cultural activity during the two years of the Corona epidemic.

Dr. Sarah A. Abdoh Mohamed indicated that the exhibition includes works of relief and pas-relief sculptures, and all works are related to society and ancient Egyptian civilization.

For example, among the works are sculptures of climate change, with reference to the COP 27 climate conference, which began about two weeks ago and ends tomorrow, Saturday. The works which are inspired by the ancient Egyptian civilization were also carved, as they were mainly based on sculpture and architecture, and the extent of the influence of our Pharaonic civilization on the students of the Faculty of Applied Arts.

The youngest Egyptian artist, the first head of the sculpture department

Dr. Sarah A. Abdoh, Professor of Sculpture, Architectural Formation and Restoration at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University, received a high-level promotion to become the youngest department head in the faculties of fine and applied arts in Egyptian universities, thanks to her unique scientific research around the world, which she published in many international journals in Europe, the United States and Asia during the past few years.

The Egyptian artist, Sara A. Abdoh, was able to win an Italian award to study and conduct experiments in the most prestigious art academies in it, after she published her scientific research on the history of ancient Egyptian and Jewish art at Harvard and Stanford universities, the two largest universities in the United States and in the whole world.

The plastic artist who promotes Egyptian tourism with her lectures at the Pharaonic Museum

Dr. Sarah led the initiative to give practical lectures to students of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University, at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, to encourage tourism, which has declined over the past years.

Her lectures dealt with the history of ancient Egyptian art and the philosophy of the ancient pharaonic artist who has created unique monuments that dazzled the world untill niw.

Encouraging internal and external cultural and artistic tourism

Dr. Sarah, Professor of Sculpture, aims to encourage internal and external cultural and artistic tourism, and explains to her students that the Pharaonic artist was able to lay the artistic and architectural foundations in various fields, especially the art of sculpture, painting and architecture.

Dr. Sarah calls for not ignoring the history of Pharaonic and Egyptian arts, and the need to teach them from the beginning instead of teaching the artistic and architectural foundations of Western civilizations and strives to revive Pharaonic art in a contemporary way, as well as to encourage students to work through inspiration from the Egyptian art and its philosophy in their artworks.

She tries through student visits to museums, to encourage the movement of cultural tourism to museums and archaeological sites, so the students can be inspired by pharaonic art through applying theoretical lectures in the museum, and transforming them into works of art for practical materials inspired by visiting the Pharaonic Museum in Tahrir Square.

Egyptian artist Dr. Sarah feels self-confident during the era of President El-Sisi

The Egyptian artist Dr. Sarah, feels self-confidence during the era of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi; Who supports women leaders and she considers his reign as the golden age of Egyptian women as he demands the empowerment of women.

Therefore, she feels proud of being an Egyptian woman who obtains all her rights in the Egyptian society today during the rule of President El-Sisi and hopes that women will be able to reach the highest positions.

The Egyptian government is able to achieve many goals of education and sustainable development, especially equality between women and men and the empowerment of women, according to Sarah Abd Rabbo, the first female department chair at the Faculty of Applied Arts and the first Egyptian artist to win a scholarship in Italy, where Dr. Sarah won a unique grand prize that was given to her by the Italian Embassy in Egypt in cooperation with the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Rome to study for 3 months, from which she recently returned.

Dr. Sarah 's fame in Italy and japan

Dr. Sarah, affirmed that the Egyptian woman regained, during the rule of President El-Sisi, her social and leadership status, to which she had become accustomed since the Pharaonic times, to the extent that the oldest art academy in Italy grant Dr. Sarah, at the end of last year, an invitation to study in it, thanks to her fame as an international arbitrator for scientific research in international research institutions and universities.

She also participated in publishing scientific research in Japan and become an arbitrator in the Japanese Research Arbitration Committee and the only Egyptian woman in the Asian Arbitration Committee.