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Storm Over Cairo
Forthcoming, Edition Fink, Zurich, Switzerland, 2025

In my forthcoming book Storm Over Cairo I guide the reader on a journey on Cairo’s ring road and roads following the Nile North and South of Cairo to the unloved outskirts of the city. Along the way, new housing projects in the desert, mosques built illegally on agricultural land, and the soundscapes of the city, as well as ghosts from my past are brought to life.

I spent three years recording interviews with the people who live and work in mosques on the outskirts of Cairo – imams, caretakers, muezzins, contractors, lighting technicians, brick-makers. In this extended essay, I slightly fictionalize their accounts and set them beside two parallel threads: a running commentary on Cairo’s shifting urban fabric and a more private meditation on loss, distance, and belonging—an elliptical narrative that mirrors my circular voyage on the ring road. This extended essay is paired with my 120 mm and 35 mm photography—portraits of these improvised mosques and their hybrid typologies.

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