The deeply personal, yet public projects you see on here are the outcome of the workshop facilitated by Farah Wael Hallaba  "Collaborative Anthropology Workshop; Family & Life History, class identity and Liminality" in which participants got introduced to the world of social anthropology and learnt how they can use its methodologies to look into their own family and life histories and write auto-ethnographies with the help of the inspiring, experienced and extremely helpful guest speakers who took part in some of the sessions;  Lucie Ryzova, Joao Pina Cabral, Samuli Shielke, Shahd Al Rawi, Samar Dwidar, and Noha Fikry. This is an attempt in decolonizing knowledge in Egypt, where we can provide bottom up anthropological/socio-historical knowledge about our experiences.

The main theme throughout the 2-months duration of the workshop was the Egyptian Middle Class culture in family context but with such a rich and insightful topic, the discussions, naturally, branched out into a multitude of other topics that touched on both the contrasting and common aspects of our shared life in Egypt. And on this website we share our personal projects about the middle class; with a section about food, salon, archive and soon resources and music/films.

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This website is meant to be live and ongoing, this collaborative workshop probing into the Egyptian middle class families will continuously be organised and its outcomes will be added to the site. 

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For further details & to know how you can be part of  us; Check Here