Beit El-Sennari or El Sennari House in Cairo:
Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, bringing with him an army of scientists, scholars, and artists to establish a French cultural base in the country.
Over the next few years, they carried out the first European study of Egypt and published their findings in the Description de I’Egypte (see p20).
This beit (house), which was built in 1794 for Ibrahim Katkhuda as-Sennari, an occultist from Sudan, was requisitioned by Napoleon and housed many of his artists during the occupation.
It has some fine wooden mashrabiyya screens, an attractive courtyard and a well-preserved complex of rooms.
After extensive renovation, the house has reopened as the Institute for Applied Arts, with displays of glassware, textiles, and pottery and other work by local artists.
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