Video | Beyond the factory: the carriage maker
كتابة: Reham Gharib
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Hajj Ali Suleiman owns the oldest workshop, specialized in building horse drawn carriages in Alexandria. Over a century ago, when his grandfather set up the workshop with an Italian partner, 4000 carriages walked the streets of Alexandria. Now, there's no more than 25. Suleiman tells us how his family got into this craft and developed it till this day.
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Video | Beyond the factory: Kiln of discovery
This is the story of Abdel Sattar's workplace, a pottery workshop in the village of Tunis, Fayoum.
Nour Pleutin
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Video | Beyond the factory: The zincographer
Mohamed Belya works as a zincographer in the Cairo neighborhood of al-Gamaliyya.
Haisam Hassan
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Video | Beyond the factory: The saddler
Farag Abdu makes saddles in Shubra, Cairo by hand, the way his father did
Menem Sami
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