Three hours from Cairo lies the village of Tunis, known for its ceramists. A human story that we are eager to share with you.<\/p>\n
The village of Tunis is in the heart of the oasis of Fayoum, itself surrounded by desert. It overlooks a salt lake, Lake Qarun, offering surprising and totally unexpected landscapes.<\/p>\n
We’ll leave the landscape aside to tell you about our meeting. We met Evelyne Porret, a Swiss ceramist, graduate of the Decorative Arts School of Geneva. In 1989, she founded a pottery school in Tunis with her husband Michel Pastore, also a ceramist. Today, the school has just fifteen students. It all started when, aged 20, she decided to join her parents in Cairo and to study Arabic.<\/p>\n
Initially the village of Tunis was an agricultural village that depends on the cultivation of figs, grapes and olives. By settling there and founding a pottery school, Evelyne and her husband wanted to transmit their know-how and to revitalize the village. Initially, she was met with reluctance by parents because they thought the children wouldn’t want to work on the land.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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