Author

Emmanuelle Perrin

is a historian of the ethnography of Egypt. Her thesis studied the Dictionary of Egyptian Customs, Traditions and Phrases, published in 1953 by the scholar Ahmad Amîn and one of the first texts recording and describing Egyptian folklore. At present, she works at InVisu (USR 3103 CNRS/INHA) on the Romanization of Arabic geographical names.

Articles by this author

issue 6

Beautiful Wounds:

The World of Traditional Egyptian Tattoos

Much more than simple body adornments, traditional Egyptian tattoos incorporate complex meanings and evoke tales of knights, seductresses and animals in a multicolour world of the imagination.