entire Arab world featuring a mother breastfeeding her infants while holding over her shoulders symbols of prosperity (wheat stem), development (bricks Built) and culture (book). As a result of the Six-Day War 1967 and the nationwide feeling of frustration and despair, El-Sagini often featured Egypt in his paintings of that period as a candy doll – a famous symbol in Egyptian carnivals– that is crippled, tortured or even hanged. Following the Yom Kippur War 1973 and the blood pumping again into Egypt's and the whole Arab world's veins, El-Sagini pictured Egypt as a beautiful woman with strong facial features in two of his most expressive statues of that era in Egypt's modern history, In his statue "The Great Crossing of The Suez Canal" (Bronze- 33x127x 38 cm-1973) El-Sagini pictures the Egyptian soldiers in a ship –Egypt– rowing relentlessly to cross the Suez Canal. El Sagini's second statue "Egypt, The Future" (Bronze- 90x80x 30 cm-1975) features a woman –Egypt– standing proudly in an expressive position that shows strength, hope and determination towards a better future. The River Nile El Sagini always saw the River Nile as the symbol of prosperity and well being picturing the Nile as an old bearded man in his Statue "The Nile" (Bronze- 100x50x8 cm-1958), yet he also considered it his source of solace and relief. El Sagini's special relation with the river Nile was clearly pictured in 1969 when he decided as an act of rebellion to throw some of his sculptures in the Nile as a result of the state's lack of recognition and support as his statues were piling up in his atelier instead of standing tall in the streets and squares of Egypt. This unprecedented act of rebellion took the Egyptian art scene by storm and made the Egyptian society think about every artist's true passion and purpose of the work he is creating. This purpose is simply to get the artist's work to be seen by others, feeding the viewers’ minds and souls, making them think, dream, enjoy and sometimes change. Death In 1977 El Sagini traveled to Spain for a comprehensive exhibition of his works organized by the Egyptian General Organization for Information held in Madrid and then Barcelona, where he died on November 17 at the age of 60. His body was accompanied by his wife – Hoda – back to Egypt where he was buried at the family cemetery