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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."
6 December 2019
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
12 November 2015
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
20 October 2015
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
26 May 2014
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