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Cairo artist transforms traditional art with innovation

STORY: Cairo artist transforms traditional art with innovation DATELINE: Feb. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:05 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of paintings 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): AYMAN HAMMOUDA, 3D painting artist 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AYMAN HAMMOUDA, 3D painting artist STORYLINE: Ayman Hammouda is a 3D painting artist who is dedicated to his family's traditional craftsmanship with innovative ideas. Since 2011, Hammouda has been studying and developing his father's decoupage craftsmanship. He mastered the art of decoupage which is used to decorate homes. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): AYMAN HAMMOUDA, 3D painting artist "Decoupage and collage consist of cutting, separating and assembling. We introduced a third technique with them, which is to make them three-dimensional and realistic with the concept of 3D." Hammouda's works infused the decoupage arts with both modern and ancient appearances. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AYMAN HAMMOUDA, 3D painting artist "It was my father's idea in 2011 when I was

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3,000 yellow handkerchiefs fly to support post-quake work

SENDAI, Japan - About 3,000 yellow handkerchiefs sent from across Japan are tied to a zelkova tree in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 23, 2014, as a symbol of support for reconstruction work after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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Tsunami-hit Minamisanriku disaster center in snow

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The Minamisanriku disaster prevention center, which had been reduced to a skeletal structure by the March 2011 tsunami, stands in the snow on Feb. 11, 2014, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Walking for survey of post-disaster park reconstruction

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013, during a field survey commissioned by the Environment Ministry to choose a 700-kilometer natural path called "Tohoku Kaigan Trail." The selection of the coastal path from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is a core project for a Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park to be created by rebuilding natural parks damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a baggage turnstile at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on March 17, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013. Flight services at the airport, which was inundated by the tsunami, resumed around a month after the disaster.

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2 years after quake

KAMAISHI, Japan - Photos show a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same road on Feb. 27, 2013.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2012, shows the signboard of a nonprofit Japanese-style pub named Reconstruction Support Tavern, which opened in Tokyo's Ginza district in January the same year to aid recovery efforts in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The tavern, open until late September 2012, aims to donate its monthly profits of over 1 million yen to the prefectural governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 23, 2012, shows ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' a photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which was published the same day by Kodansha Ltd.

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers search for remains of people missing in the March 2011 quake and tsunami in an operation in the Pacific off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2012. Some 3,300 people remained missing 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Police officers offer a prayer at a site where a police box used to be in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2012. A police officer who was on duty at the police box went missing 11 months ago when the March 2011 quake and tsunami hit the area. Behind them is a large fishing boat brought by the tsunami still remaining ashore.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Restoration work is under way as many gravestones remain tumbled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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11 months after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - Lights are lit at temporary housing units in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, for people hit by the March 2011 quake as evening came down on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ravage of the March 2011 tsunami remains in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Burned cars are piled up and a large ship brought by the March 2011 tsunami remained ashore in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows participants of a disaster drill getting on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a disaster drill get on the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Tokyo Bay on Feb. 3, 2012. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer Lassen in Tokyo Bay heading to the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, taking part in a disaster drill in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. Seen in the background is the Tokyo Sky Tree tower. About 10,000 people took part in the drill aimed at avoiding the chaotic overcrowding at train stations and on streets that left many stranded following the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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5 Chinese to resume job training after surviving tsunami

NARITA, Japan - Five Chinese trainees arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. They returned to Japan to resume training at a seafood-processing plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, after surviving the March 11, 2011, tsunami that swept away the company's executive officer who helped them to escape and later lost his life.

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Paper cranes for missing coach

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuki Hattori, 11, looks at paper cranes, a symbol of hope and peace in Japan, created by him and other elementary and middle school children whose fencing coach Yurika Uchihira, 19, is one of the students missing in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 earthquake in New Zealand, at a gymnasium in Toyama on March 8, 2011. The students wrote letters to Uchihira and folded them into cranes, in a gesture of hope for her return.

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Supporters of plaintiffs hold up banners in front of the Osaka District Court on Feb. 25, 2011, declaring victory in their case after the court ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine of 11 plaintiffs who sought compensation over side-effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa.

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AstraZeneca ordered to pay damages over side-effects of Iressa

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Shimizu (R), a plaintiff who demanded compensation over side effects caused by the lung cancer drug Iressa, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 25, 2011, together with Akio Chikazawa, a plaintiff in a similar suit filed in Tokyo. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered the Japan unit of British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC to pay a total of 60.5 million yen to nine out of 11 plaintiffs, including Shimizu.

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High-end Tokyo hotel to shelter nuclear evacuees

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2011, shows the main building of Tokyo's Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, which is scheduled to be torn down in 2011, following the hotel's closure at the end of March. The hotel, which was considered ultra-chic in the 1980s, will be used as an evacuation center until the end of June for evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture affected by the March 11 quake-triggered troubles at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Miyaichi gets 1st goal with Feyenoord

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese teen striker Ryo Miyaichi (L) celebrates his first goal as a Feyenoord player against Heracles Almelo in Rotterdam on Feb. 12, 2011, contributing to the team's 2-1 victory. Premier League giants Arsenal have sent Miyaichi to Feyenoord on loan for the remainder of the 2010/11 season.

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Miyaichi gets 1st goal with Feyenoord

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese teen striker Ryo Miyaichi scores his first goal as a Feyenoord player in the first half of a Dutch first-division game against Heracles Almelo in Rotterdam on Feb. 12, 2011, contributing to the team's 2-1 victory. Premier League giants Arsenal have sent Miyaichi to Feyenoord on loan for the remainder of the 2010/11 season.

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G-4 presses for UNSC reform

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Takeaki Matsumoto (2nd from R) and other participants of a meeting of the so-called Group of Four countries head for a press conference after their session in New York on Feb. 11, 2011. The G-4 members, also including Germany, India and Brazil, reiterated their common push for specific results in reforms of the U.N. Security Council by September 2011.

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Norwegian marks world ski jump record

VIKERSUND, Norway - Norway's Johan Remen Evensen speaks in a press conference in Vikersund, Norway, on Feb. 11, 2011, after renewing the world ski jumping record twice during a trial round of World Cup qualification at the expanded Vikersund jump.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - File photo shows then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (front C) meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (woman in kimono) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in April 1999. Mubarak stepped down after about 30 years of rule on Feb. 11, 2011.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Prayer in Tahrir Square

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters and soldiers offer prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Ioka crowned WBC minimumweight champ

KOBE, Japan - Japan's Kazuto Ioka waves to the crowd after a historic win over Oleydong Sithsamerchai of Thailand and being crowned WBC minimumweight champion at Kobe World Memorial Hall in western Japan on Feb. 11, 2011. Victory for 10th-ranked Ioka saw him set the Japanese record for winning a world title in the fewest number of fights -- seven.

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Post office made of pastries

OSAKA, Japan - A student confectioner decorates a post office made of cookies, sweet buns and other pastries in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2011. Messages on a limited number of original postcards prepared at the site that are dropped into a mailbox there through Valentine's Day will be delivered to the recipients via real post offices.

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Shinmoe Peak erupts again

TAKAHARU, Japan - Shinmoe Peak, a volcano on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southwestern Japan, spews columns of smoke on Feb. 11, 2011. The volcano erupted again after a seven-day hiatus, marking its 10th eruption since late January.

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Monkey boss

OITA, Japan - Male monkey ''Benz,'' believed to be 32 years old, ''attends'' a ceremony Feb. 11, 2011, to mark his becoming the boss of an 816-monkey group at a wilderness park in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Shinmoe Peak erupts again

TAKAHARU, Japan - Smoke from Shinmoe Peak, a volcano on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southwestern Japan, spreads in the sky in the town of Takaharu, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. The volcano erupted again after a seven-day hiatus, marking its 10th eruption since late January.

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Police raid gang

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Police officers line up in front of the home of the boss of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. About 90 police officers searched the home, with some 20 riot squad members standing guard outside, in an investigation into a suspected attempted murder involving a shooting at a local construction site two days earlier.

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Snow covers Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - People walk in the snow on a street in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2011. Snow covered the major western Japanese city for the first time since 2008.

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Emperor enters hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the University of Tokyo Hospital in a car in the snow on Feb. 11, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor entered the hospital for a detailed check of his cardiac blood vessels after showing symptoms of cardiac ischemia, a condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart, during a recent physical.

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Japanese-Australia trade talks

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese trade minister Banri Kaieda (R) and his Australian counterpart Craig Emerson shake hands in Sydney on Feb. 11, 2011. The two ministers discussed their countries' efforts to open up respective markets through possible bilateral and regional free trade initiatives. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)