EAP1682
Aims and objectives
The project seeks to preserve and digitise archival material related to the life and career of Na'ima al-Misriyya (1894-1976), a female Egyptian singer active from 1911 to 1937, and a pioneer of the gramophone and live performance era of Arabic music. Most of the material is from Egypt from the 1910s through 1930s, with some dating up to the 1950s.
The archive is currently housed in a residential apartment in Cairo with little climate control relative to temperature, humidity and dust, and remains uncatalogued. A collection of this nature formed around a leading female figure such as Naima al-Misriyya is unique in Egypt and the Middle East, as most materials of this kind have already been lost.
