Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories Relating to adolescence / teenage years and living against the odds

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Freie UniversitŠt Berlin

and make unexpected connections across time and media

Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories Relating to adolescence / teenage years and living against the oddsNayra Atiya Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a businessman, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya intimately captured the everyday triumphs and struggles of these young men in a rapidly changing Egyptian society. These tender stories of childhood experiences in the rural countryside, of