Hany Al-Sayed Ahmad Abd Al-Kader is an Egyptian textile artist known for khayamiyya, the historic Cairo tradition of cotton appliqué embroidery. Based in Cairo, he is associated with the city’s tentmaker quarter and with the continued practice of a craft that has survived from the medieval period into the present. His work gained wider institutional recognition through the series of Revolution Khayamiyya panels, in which he recorded the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution through......