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Aida El Kashef
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detox
20 min read
Detox | Issue 10: Burning manuscripts, empty landscapes and the fear of forgetting
"I’m still praying that time will be fair to us and that everything we’ve done won’t be in vain."
Aida El Kashef
13 min read
From Mahfouz to Mohamed Khan: On two of CLUSTER’s downtown tours
Lara El Gibaly and Rowan El Shimi
| As part of its Creative Cities conference hosted by the American University in Cairo, CLUSTER organized
Aida El Kashef
10 min read
On creative ways to fund films, and women who killed their husbands
Rowan El Shimi
| Egypt’s indie filmmakers come up with alternative methods of making, from crowdfunding to no-budget
Aida El Kashef
6 min read
The wandering box: Storytelling in the age of the megacity
Lindsey Parietti
| Come and hear the story of the yellow mountain full of ice, beckons the Wonder Box. Rolled from the back
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