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CAIRO — “It felt like a diverse gallery stretched throughout an entire town — just wonderful,” exclaimed Amal Henri, who attended the eighth annual Tunis Pottery and Handcrafts Festival, held in early November.
Local and foreign tourists, many with a taste for pottery and other handcrafts, flock every year to Tunis, a small, picturesque village in Egypt’s Faiyum governorate. Today, the village is one of the stopping points of most tours in Egypt, but a mere 50 years ago, it was an untouched hamlet. In 1980s, Swiss potter Evelyn Porret opened her studio there and quickly turned it to a pottery school, the first step toward turning the village into a center for pottery and ceramics.
