Alia Mossallam has two passions. One is working with children using colors, and the other is listening to people’s stories. Alia has recently completed a PhD that explores a popular history of Nasserist Egypt, through the stories told, and songs sung by the people behind the 1952 revolution. Namely the workers who built the Aswan High Dam, the Nubians…
January 23, 2014 Dear Lina, Adly Mansour is on TV. My father tells me, “It isn't as bad as you think.” I sit begrudgingly to listen, but the tag-line…
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