[2] Effat Mousa Nagy was born in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria in 1905.

[1] She was taught art by a private tutor and her artistic brother Mohamed Nagy.

[3] She worked in Egypt under André Lhote and they used Egyptian archaeology as subject matter.

She was asked to record the archaeology that would be lost as it was submerged under the waters of the Aswan Dam as it was constructed.

Nagy and her husband have a museum in Cairo which contains about 200 of their paintings and pottery.