This morning, the whole village of Tunis – located in the Fayoum governorate – attended the funeral of Evelyne Porret, who was known as “the lady of Tunis village.” The Swiss artist, who lived in Tunis since the mid-1980s, was a key mentor of pottery and the founder of the village’s Fayoum Pottery School. “Evelyne is Tunis,” explained Rawya Abdel Qader, the first girl to attend Porret’s pottery school. “I ...