EGYPTIAN MUSIC

Where Is

Egypt?

• What is the capital of Egypt?• Located in the continent of Africa, Egypt covers

995,450 square kilometers of land and 6,000 square kilometers of water, making it the 30th largest nation in the world with a total area of 1,001,450 square kilometers.

• Egypt became an independent state in 1831, after gaining its sovereignty from Turkey. The population of Egypt is 83,688,164 (2012) and the nation has a density of 84 people per square kilometer.

• The currency of Egypt is the Egyptian Pound (EGP). As well, the people of Egypt are refered to as Egyptian.

Egyptian Traditional Clothing

Egypt had a range of traditional costumes. The farmers (fellahin) basically wear gallibayas. In the cities the upper classes adopted the clothes of their conquerors - Ottoman Turks from 1500s, and later European from 1798. To the south the Nubians have their own distinctive costume and across the desert the Bedouin also have a separate style of clothing.

Man in gallibaya

Egypt - WomenFruitseller

(c1980)Peasant women would wear a gallebaya outdoors but in the city gallibaya tended to be worn only indoors. For public wear a woman would wear a wide woman's dress called a tob sebleh.Wide trousers were worn as underclothing (tshalvar or shintijan) gathered below knee and falling to ankles.The woman's kaftan was called a yelek. This was lined, with the neck open to breast and buttoned or laced along side seams for shaping. It had high side slit over trousers. Girded with shawl. Women would wear a shirt under the yelek, and a djubbeh or binnish over it.

Ibn Wahshiyya's translation of the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph alphabet

AkhenatenAkhenaten

Anwar Sadat

Cleopatra

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hassan

Fathy

Hatshepsut

Egyptian Music• Music was as important to the ancient

Egyptians as it is in our modern society. Although it is thought that music played a role throughout the history of Egypt, those that study the Egyptian writings have discovered that music seemed to become more important in what is called the ‘pharaonic’ period of their history. This was the time when the Egyptian dynasties of the pharaohs were established (around 3100 BCE) and music was found in many parts of every day Egyptian life.

THANK YOU! Prepared by:

Rachelle Ann N. Mendenilla

Myka Aira D. Ayleon