Egyptian Timelines 1
In the past year, images – professional and amateur – of the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities in Egypt have filled the newspapers, and our TV and computer screens. How can we contextualise what we are seeing, and place those images within a larger socio-historical, visual and cultural context? These are the questions we aim to address in the Egyptian Timelines programme.
In this combined programme
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Sturm: Ahmonseto
In the Ahmonseto textile factory, capitalism cuts to the bone and the workers pay the price.
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In/Out of the Room
In Dina Hamza’s latest documentary In/Out of the Room, a rare story unfolds of the life of a man whose job is to take lives.
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Sturm: Fayoum
In the village of Abuxa in the governorate of Fayoum, the Nile’s water isn’t flowing like it once did. Here, capitalism cuts to the bon
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Crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema
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In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
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