April 2018 – Ongoing. Self-funded; storytelling funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Cairo.
A cultural and heritage program that aims to develop the skills of girls and women in al-Khalifa through knowledge exchange and heritage awareness. The program activities vary from craft workshops, sports to vocational training sessions. The program also included hands-on training in urban farming methods. Moreover, women join our heritage tours, both inside and outside al-Khalifa and contribute to our participatory research and design activities.
The program also works with the women of al-Khalifa on collecting their stories and retelling them like in the Women Quilt for al-Hattaba Project and storytelling workshops with Chirine al-Ansary within Megawra’s Khalifa Exchange Program.
April 2018 – Ongoing. Self-funded; storytelling funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Cairo.
A cultural and heritage program that aims to develop the skills of girls and women in al-Khalifa through knowledge exchange and heritage awareness. The program activities vary from craft workshops, sports to vocational training sessions. The program also included hands-on training in urban farming methods. Moreover, women join our heritage tours, both inside and outside al-Khalifa and contribute to our participatory research and design activities.
The program also works with the women of al-Khalifa on collecting their stories and retelling them like in the Women Quilt for al-Hattaba Project and storytelling workshops with Chirine al-Ansary within Megawra’s Khalifa Exchange Program.
Athar Lina is a participatory conservation initiative that aims to establish modalities of citizen participation in heritage conservation based on an understanding of the monument as a resource not a burden.
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