In the 1980s a Swiss female potter – called Evelyn Porret – visited Fayoum with her Egyptian friends. No sooner had she come across Tunis than she decided to build her own country house and pottery workshop there. She started her pottery studio in her new country house. At the very beginning, the village children would come – out of curiosity- to see what is going on. Some of them appeared very interested in Evelyn’s work, which encouraged her to help them unearth their talents. Consequently, she established a pottery school. Today, the students of the Swiss lady, as some like to call it, represent a new generation of independent potters who reflect the interaction of man and his surroundings, each of them has his own studio and display his / her pottery works in local and international exhibitions .Gradually, the ordinary village turned into a reputable center of a modern pottery and an open air museum of both eco and traditional rural buildings, which attracted investors and entrepreneurs who began to provide the village with different facilities to meet the incessant demand on the place. The most important of such facilities are some eco-lodges, a horse-riding center, a guesthouse, in addition to guidance services for bird-watching and Safari.