Our Story

About Beit Barsoum

It started in 1942, on Moez Street in El Sagha, the beating heart of Cairo's gold district. My grandfather, Fouad Barsoum, opened a small shop. In this trade there was only one way to succeed, and that was to earn people's trust, one piece at a time. He did it for decades. People came to him for his handmade work, but they stayed for the man behind it.

When he passed, my father, Amir Barsoum, took his place at the bench. My grandfather had taught him every secret of the trade, and that is how the craft, and the family name, stayed protected.

Today, that legacy is being passed to me, Robeir Barsoum, the third generation. I grew up between my grandfather and father, learning patience, care, and responsibility the only way this craft is ever really learned, by hand. Later I trained under European, American, and Palestinian masters, each one adding a new dimension to my work. Then I spent years as the lead teacher at Azza Fahmy, one of Egypt's most respected jewelry houses.

Beit Barsoum is where all of it comes together, and for the first time the craft steps out from behind the scenes. I opened this academy in the heart of Old Cairo to teach the techniques and family secrets passed down through three generations, the kind of knowledge never written in any book, only ever shared at the bench, hand to hand.

What I love most is teaching. I built this academy for people who never thought of themselves as artists, because they are often the ones who get the most out of working with their hands. No experience, no background, no special talent required. Just curiosity.

Most of the people who walk through our door already have jobs and full lives, and they come to try something new. For some it stays a hobby, a quiet escape from the routine. For others it becomes a side business, and for a few, a brand of their own. Wherever you want to take it, my goal is the same, to give you real skills and the confidence to use them. I want jewelry making to be something anyone in Egypt can learn, not a closed world kept for the few.

Every workshop is taught with real passion, because this craft is in my blood. When you make a piece here, you are not just shaping metal. You are making something that holds time, memory, and meaning.

Because some stories are not just told. They are worn.