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"Cairo’s Traveling Peep Show Boxes"
Cairobserver, ed. Mohamed el Shahed, Cairo, Egypt, 2014
A mirrored geodesic “disco-dome” and a pastel ice-cream cart become twenty-first–century heirs to the Sandook El Donya, the Middle Eastern peep-show box. In this article I follow the two roving “Wonder Boxes” as they roll from Shubra el-Kheima to Moqattam, folding projection-mapping, street storytelling, and improvised music into intimate four-person viewings. Part design diary, part urban ethnography, the piece shows how a traveling micro-theatre can stitch together Cairo’s disparate quarters with bubbles, mawwals, and mirrored light.
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