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transitioning through urban space

الانتقال عبر الفضاء الحضري

Interviewer:

Do you get harassed in the street? And what is your reaction if you do?

School girl:

I don't reply to him, if he approaches I walk away. I can't do more than that.

I can't reply to him, if I reply to him then I am descending to his level;

and then he will approach, use his hands and maybe even reply in an impolite manner.

- School girl's opinion about sexual harassment in Egyptian streets

Vulnerable traces

آثار ضعيفة

Methodological exploration of wax modelling, tracing and imprinting.

Mapping harassment

مضايقة الخرائط

A speculative wax mapping of the traces of harassment experienced by women in urban public space.

The Street or The Alley

Undesired touch

Movement through the Alley

Arrival within the city

Imprint remaining on the skin

Undesired stroke

Violent slap

Imprints remaining on the skin

Violent punch

Experiential map

الخريطة التجريبية

A wax skin tapestry of harassment.

The female body in the city

الجسد الأنثوي في المدينة

An exploration of the female body in the city of Johannesburg.

Video

The female body is found to occupy urban space primarily in transit.

The male body is found to occupy space not only in transit but in a state of loitering

Creating a place of ownership in the urban space

The sidewalk dweller, the street vendor

أم الرصيف ، الباعة الجائلين

The female body is also found within the city of Cairo to dwell on the threshold between the street and the building.

Egypt's Women Street Sellers

recipe of economic empowerment: Aish Baladi (puffed Egyptian bread)

وصفة التمكين الاقتصادي: عيش بلدي (خبز مصري منتفخ).

2 cups all purpose flour, and a little extra for work surface
1 teaspoon salt
¾ cup of milk
1 tablespoon olive oil
Street edge
Informal economic boundary
Urban planning framework
Informal market
Food stand

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Collect the right ingredients.

Pour the flour, salt, milk and olive oil.

Mix the ingredients on the economic surface.

Prepare your economic empowerment for baking.

deconstructing the ingredients of safe SPACES IN eGYPT

تفكيك مكونات المساحات الآمنة في مصر

An investigation of the devices that govern the creation of safe spaces in Egypt.

The Domestic Space

Ingredients

The Male Authority Figure
The Timber front door
The four lever door lock

The Women's Shelter

Ingredients

Thick Exterior Stone wall
Peep Window within the door
Security cameras

The Police Station

Ingredients

Ornamented Architrave
Large scale entrance door
Security cameras
Police officer enforcement

The Egyptian High Court of Justice

Ingredients

Large scale
The colonnade
Egypt's Legislation

The OBJECT as an animate object

المقعد ككائن متحرك

The work explores the methodology of breathing life into an inanimate object as a bench is imagined, through surrealism, as an active participant with the observer in an art gallery.

exploring a recipe for Passage to safety

المرور إلى بر الأمان

A drawing that Illustrates a passage to safety.

site landing

Talaat Harb street

"There were two other friends with me, a female and her male.

We felt like we were in a war - I had my self defense spray. It was emptied on the endless number of guys who surrounded us and yet still wasn't enough.

We, girls, had our butts, breasts , and every inch of our bodies grabbed. I ended up slipping into a car that was parking on the road side when I tried to catch one of the mother fuckers who insisted and never gave up grabbing my butt. So, I end up with a deep cut in my right hand palm and another one on my thumb of the same hand as I slipped into the car's headlight that broke and cut my hand..."

- GIRL4CAIRO, blogger