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Nubian House Door

Green Door

Watercolour and crayon

40cm x 30 cm

Fishing Boats

Alexandria, Egypt

Watercoulor
45 cm x 60 cm

Morning Glory Collection

Watercolour

45cm x 33cm

Thornbury Harbour

Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
Watercolour 36 cm x 27 cm

Here I am hard at work painting the habour.

We later went fishing and did not
have to invent a fish story!
Nice salmon netted by Aziz.

El Hakim Winter Home

Gouna, Red Sea, Egypt
Watercoulour,
22 cm x 25 cm

Pennsylvania Landscape

I was commissioned by an American lady to paint this beautiful landscape around her Pennsylvania residence.

It took 6 days to complete. This is how it looked on day 2.

Corner Store

Cairo, Egypt

Watercolour

2007

Drip Dry

2007, Toronto , Canada

Watercolour, 22cm x33cm

A study in free and watery brush strokes

Architectural Detail

2007, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

40cm x 60cm

Rendering of the "stalactites" on the west wall of the Sultan Baybars mausoleum.

Sheesha

2007,

medium: Watercolour

28cm x 36cm

Ladies enjoying their sheeshas (water pipes).

Bullmoose

2007, Algonquin Park, Ontario,

medium: watercolour

This painting was inspired by a photo taken by my sons during their adventurous trip in the wild. Luckily, the moose did not charge!

Palm Trees

2007, Near Aswan, Egypt

medium: watercolour

View From Kitchen Window

2006, Brittany, France
medium: watercolour
size: 40cm x 35cm

This painting portrays the view of the guest house from the kitchen window of Laila's vacation home, an old converted mill. It has become customary for us to spend summer vacations with her. After seeing this, she created her own "patchwork" interpretation.(a cloth cut-and-sew medium she has mastered) .

Hypostyle Hall,Temple of Karnak

2006, Upper Egypt
medium: watercolour
Size: 40cm x 60cm

Gamal el Dine Adh-Dhabi House

2006, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

Grant

2006 , Wasaga Beach, Ontario
medium: watercolour

Size: 25cm x 30cm

My friend Rafik's old sleepy dog

Timber Bridge

2006, Lighthouse Point

Collingwood, Ontario

medium: watercolour

Gouna Marina

2006, Gouna , Red Sea

medium: watercolour

size: 35cm x 60cm

Many fish stories have emerged from Gerard's boat

Silverware Bazar

2006, Cairo

Nile Village

2006, along the River Nile, Egypt

medium: watercolour

Majorca Village

2005, Campanet, Spain

View from Paula's window

Side Entrance

Side entrance to my cousin's vacation residence

2005, Brittany, France.
medium: pencil and watercolour
25cm x 30cm

Angry Sea

2004, Atlantic Canada

medium: watercolour

Very Cold

2004, Georgian Bay, Canada

medium: watercolour

Cold, cold day in the northern wilderness.

The Courtyard

2004, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

A typical Ottoman house with an open courtyard.

El Hara

2005, Old Cairo

medium: watercolour

A busy lane in a mixed residential, commercial district

Brittany Home

2004, Brittany, France
medium: pencil
size: 25cm x 30cm

Hand Etude

Resort Condo

The sketch as developed in first day, and the seventh day

2004, Soukhna, Red Sea

medium: pencil

View of neighbour's place, from Malak's condo deck

Red Sea View

2002, Gouna

Medium: pencil and watercolour

size: 30cm x 30 cm

This is a sketch looking out of my brother's chalet

African Mask

1992, Niger

medium: pencil

During my travels in Africa, I picked up and sketched this Nigerian witchdoctor mask .

Toronto City Hall

1984, Toronto, Canada

Medium: pencil

View from the 42nd floor of the First Canadian Place office tower

View of Old Cairo

1979, Cairo, Egypt

artist: Mohsen Rifaat

medium: felt-tip pen