cultural heritage
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Global
The Theatre of the Pitch: Football Between Anthropological Phenomena and Popular Spectacle
Exploration of football, tracing its deep-seated cultural roots from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings to the global popular spectacle of the…
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Lower Egypt
Zakariya Al-Hijjawi and the Mapping of Egypt’s Musical Soul
The legacy of Zakariya Al-Hijjawi, the pioneering architect of Egyptian folk music and theater who unearthed Egypt’s living cultural treasures.…
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Greater Cairo
Dr. Yousriya Hosni on the Erasure of Egyptian Heritage and the Threat of Memory
Dr. Yousriya Hosni discusses the deep cultural evolution of Egyptian jewelry and warns against the cultural ignorance threatening to turn…
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Lower Egypt
The Social Ledger of Kafr al-Battikh: How a Tradition of Giving Evolved into an Economic Engine
In the Egyptian city of Kafr al-Battikh, the ancient tradition of Nuqout has evolved from a simple social gesture into…
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Lower Egypt
Job of the Sea: The Odyssey of Fawzy al-Dabbousi from British Camps to the High Seas
From the British military camps of the 1940s to the historic reopening of the Suez Canal, Fawzy al-Dabbousi known as…
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