american studies institute ain sukhna, egyptjanuary 2005 slideshow eight: the gayer-anderson house a...

American Studies InstituteAin Sukhna, Egypt January 2005

Slideshow Eight:The Gayer-Anderson House

A Joint Project of Binational Fulbright Commission-Egypt

and

James Madison UniversityOffice of International Programs

Lee Sternberger, Principal Investigator

Project Directors Noha El Gindi (Fulbright)

Lorie Merrow (JMU)

JMU FacultyPhilip Bigler, Steve Reich

Elizabeth Chew (Monticello) Mark Facknitz, Howard Lubert

Fulbright AssistantsMariam

Laila HusseinJMU Student Assistant

Bareza Rasoul

A walk through Islamic Cairo

First stop,

The Gayer-Anderson House

A museum of two restored Muslim homes

And oriental artifacts collected by a British physician

A museum guide

opens a hidden door to

a small chamber where

women sat protected

behind a grillwork and

watching gatherings of

men below

The Women’s Room

View from the Women’s Room

Furniture and

other details

The homes

exhibited many

different styles of

decor

A bedroom ceiling

A folding chair

inlaid with ivory

A birthing chair with carved script from the Quran

A portrait of

Mohammed Ali

ca. 1850

A rooftop terrace with wooden grillwork, water jugs and other amenities

The view from the rooftop terrace

Overlooking the courtyard of the adjacent Ibn Tulun Mosque