The village of New Gourna was designed and built in the 1940s by the Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy. He pioneered the use of sustainable materials and environmentally friendly design to build housing for low income families who were being relocated from their original village at Old Gourna.
60 years later, many of the now historic New Gourna buildings have fallen into disrepair and others have disappeared or been changed beyond recognition. A project…
The village of New Gourna was designed and built in the 1940s by the Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy. He pioneered the use of sustainable materials and environmentally friendly design to build housing for low income families who were being relocated from their original village at Old Gourna.
60 years later, many of the now historic New Gourna buildings have fallen into disrepair and others have disappeared or been changed beyond recognition. A project…
Spreading out along Ethiopia's northern border with Eritrea, the region of Tigray has a tense and difficult history. The area was hit particularly hard by the famines and civil war during the 1980s and 1990s.
The region has a high prevalence of people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as many broken homes and dead or missing men.For the women of Tigrinia and their families life has been tough, with limited access to financial, medical, educational and…
A documentary made for the Global Alliance for Improving Nutrition near Lake Victoria in Western Kenya. The aim was to demonstrate the value of micronutrient powder in fighting malnutrition.
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The community of Al-Darb Al-Ahmar is one of the oldest in Cairo and so are it's houses. This film follows the work of local architects as they try to redesign the old houses to cope with growing families.
Nagla comes from a village in the Fayoum Oasis south west of Cairo. After she got married, life quickly became a mundane cycle of house work and sitting on the porch. Like many men in her village, her husband wasn't keen on her going out without him and wasn't at all keen on her plans to start her business. After attending the weekly Arab Women Speak Out (AWSO) lectures, and hearing stories from women in a similar situation she persuaded her husband…
Aish Baladi (local bread) is eaten by practically every Egyptian for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's so important that instead of using the Arabic word for bread (khobz) they refer to it as 'aish', literally life.
Bread is heavily subsidized and people will queue at government bakeries to buy 20 loaves for an Egyptian pound ($0.20). With a diet so heavily reliant on bread, many people run the risk of missing key nutrients.
High incidents of anemia…
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