FWD: "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's...

This episode was recorded on March 26th, 2023Hosted by:Mysa Khalil-Hussein 👉 https://www.instagram.com/my_sa/Yasmin Khawaja 👉 https://www.instagram.com/millennialvillager/Theme music: The Brooklyn Nomads | Sidi Mansour 🔊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHJvCx1_KQFOLLOW & RATE ...  Show more

This podcast was recorded on May 1st 2023.All community presentations are prepared and presented by non-experts on the subject. They are sharing information in the hopes of spurring interest in that subject. Discover more and browse the resources we mention here 👉 https://www.af ...  Show more

One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a “modern” Egyptian. Women came to dominate the ...  Show more

A captivating conversation with theater director and playwright Laila Soliman about theater, cultural discourse and decolonization across the Arab world. Using three of her major works – Zigzag, La Grande Maison and her first opera Woman at Point Zero – as reference, we discuss w ...  Show more

In 1960s Egypt, a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Yasmine Ramadan’s Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of ...  Show more

We talked to Rana Abdelhamid, a  social entrepreneur and community organizer, about the organizations she founded like MALIKAH and Little Egypt.

Connect with Rana: https://www.instagram.com/ranaabdelhamid/

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