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What knives and dust can do to a person

 

 

In Egypt, there are worlds beneath the worlds tourists can see.

 

There´s the layer of tourists and occasional visitors; the layer of expatriates who live aside/protected from the real country; the layer of the ones who dig deep into Egypt´s bones.

 

I´ve always belonged to the last layer - there were no buffers, no protection, no intermediary between me and the reality of Egypt. The best and the worst - I saw it, ate it, drank it, breathed it.

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Why I hated Shaabi & why I fell in love with it

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Why I hated Shaabi & why I fell in love with it
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I´ve already told you about my hate-love relationship with Modern Shaabi.

I told you I´d built a wall between my work and this style, my world and the world of Shaabi but I hadn´t told you why I´d built those walls.

In this blog post, I´m sharing the real story behind my resistance towards Shaabi and why I - perhaps shockingly - fell in love with it.

 

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My aunt & me at a Shaabi Party

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My aunt & me at a Shaabi Party
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A sizzling hot Summer night in Cairo.

3 a.m.

Me and my auntie, a long-term visitor whom I lead by hand, hidden somewhere in "Shobra", one of the "shaabi-est"-"baladi-est"-roughest & most authentic neighborhoods of Egypt.

A broken promise. Hashish. Knives. And Joy.

A new king of Joy. 

 

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I´ll take you by the hand - we´ll take a walk in the wild side.

 

 

 

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