The General Authority of the book the latest issue of the Journal of Popular Arts of the National Archives of Folklore and offered to some of the topics that the archive documenting such traditional costume and ceremonies, folk music and folk dance, Alhawwadat and some traditions of oral history.
This issue came to celebrate the passage of three years to establish Archive, founded by Dr.. Asaad Nadim and the late A.. Safwat Kamal Wad. Ahmed Morsi, and a group of professors, specialists in the branches of popular traditions, he founded the National Archives of Folklore in 2007 as a scientific academy assume responsibility for the collection and documentation of popular traditions and classified and made available to scholars and creators.
The   The theme of traditions popular is the traditional culture, basically, was the division of labor on four axes; popular literature is divided into storytelling and songs, biographies, and proverbs and legends, and the second section of material culture Calfnon and crafts, architecture, fashion, etc., and the third section customs and folk beliefs, knowledge and ceremonies, etc., and Section IV performing arts of music and dance, games, and other popular drama.
To achieve this purpose has been training a group of collectors number reached 200 trainees passed the final tests, including 60 people were able to collect and document traditions vocabulary different, and the Archive during that period the work of 2393 field trip resulted in the collection and documentation of 2730 hours was adopted in 2241 an hour as documentaries, as well as Number 745 was collected voice clock 572 was adopted, as well as have been collected more than 130 thousand topics photo of different traditions.
In celebration of archives and those who support it allocated the Egyptian General Book the latest issue of the Journal of Popular Arts from the National Archives of folklore to stand on completed scientific done by professors specialize to save memory Egyptian It is worth mentioning that the idea of ??establishing an archive a National Folk Art Egyptian according to the term, which was common in the fifties of the last century , as well as the establishment of a scientific institute specializing based on the preparation of the scientific cadres specialized in folk arts (popular traditions) in order to promote the functions of collection, documentation, classification and study is the dream of Pioneer: Suhair Alqlmaoy and Abdul Hamid Yunis, Ahmed Roushdy favor. The beginning was in 1957 is to create a center of folk art and the Committee on folk arts of the Supreme Council for the Arts and Social Sciences, and the establishment of this center has been active movement gathering traditions popular Thothegaha and try to be classified, but the dream theme is the creation of the archive based on the documentation of popular memory and preservation has yet to materialize .
With the beginning of this century - the twenty-first - established the Egyptian Society for Folk Arts in 2001 as a civil association includes Mahtmwen Palmothorat the People's Assembly and put a key objective of its goals - and perhaps the first objectives - to work towards Archive / dream.
The And was able togetherness efforts to obtain a grant from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the approval of the Minister of Culture on the allocation of part of the house Alkhrzacy and next door to the house Suhaimi (Historic Cairo) to be the headquarters for the establishment of the archive The Journal of Popular Arts record notarial him and models which have been collected and documented.