The group is made up of several organisations such as The Northamptonshire Ancient Egyptian Society, Art Fund Northamptonshire and The Friends of Northampton Museums and Art Gallery.

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Some of the most powerful and hopeful art of the Egyptian revolution came in the form of gigantic trompe l'oeil paintings on the concrete barriers that blocked protesters' access in and around Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Cairo.

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Art may not have started the Egyptian revolution, but it played a large part once the spark was lit.

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In fact, the venerable Iraqi art of maqam was overshadowed during the Ottoman Empire, in large part by the emergence of Egyptian cinema music, and later the great diva of Arabic music in the last century, Umm Kulthum.

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