Film: Living Skin
by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh
Egypt 2011
Documentary, 40 min.
Shoushou and Mohamed are two teenage boys who live and work in the tanneries of Cairo. Through their stories, we get to know the degrading living conditions which the tanneries' inhabitants and workers are facing surrounded by very hazardous chemicals, harmful to humans as well as to the environment.
Film: Out in the Street
by Philip Rizk & Yasmina Metwaly
Egypt 2015
Experimental Documentary, 72 min.
Out on the Street is a film about a group of men from one of Egypt's working class neighborhoods, Helwan participating in an acting workshop. Through the rehearsals, stories emerge of factory injustice, police brutality, courts that fabricate criminal charges and countless tales of corruption and exploitation by their capitalist employers.
Discussant: Ahmed Badawi (Berlin / FU)
Ahmed Badawi, one of the co-founders of Transform e.V., joined the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) in 2001. He held positions as Research Associate at the Institute of Development and Peace (University of Duisburg-Essen), the Oxford Research Group, the International Crisis Group and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. Prior to leaving Egypt in 1999 he used to work as a print and TV journalist and as a community development specialist. He is a trained group facilitator since 1993, has an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS (University of London) and a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University in Berlin.
This event is part of the Arabic film series “Beyond Spring”, organized by Mayadin Al-Tahrir e.V., EUME and the Werkstatt der Kulturen.