MEPPI was recently featured in the University of Delaware's Global magazine. "Photographs preserve our history, so we have to preserve them,” says Ibrahim Abdel Fattah from the Grand Egyptian Museum, now under construction near the great pyramids of Giza. Abdel Fattah is one of 45 staff from museums and private collections across the Middle East and North Africa who are learning how to protect the precious images of the region’s cultural heritage—from 150-year-old prints of archaeological expeditions, to the Kodachrome slides of festivals and social events in the 1980s, to current-day digital images—through the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI)." Click here to read article |
