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the Statue of Liberty was originally modeled after an Arab woman, giving protestors another ironic tool to use in the fight against the immigration ban. According to historian Edward Berenson, the statue’s French designer, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was captivated with Egyptian art and history. Initially, Bartholdi designed his statue as an Egyptian woman wearing Arab peasant (fellah) garb and holding a torch over her head. She was designed to be a lighthouse guiding ships through the Suez Canal at its northern entrance. Bartholdi’s work would have debuted at the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but then-Egyptian ruler Ismail Pasha went bankrupt before the designer could finish his project.
Source: arabamerican.com
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