#ruud gielens
Two girls. One driven to give a lecture about the 1919 revolution that would lead to the Egyptian independence, the other interrupting her cynically with personal stories. Through broken records, confidential correspondences, and old photos, ‘Hawa El Horreya’ (‘Whims of Freedom’) takes you to a historical time when Egypt was about to change. Sounds familiar? Exactly. Travelling back almost 100 years brings one inevitably to a similar point in Egyptian history of merely three years ago: the 2011 revolution. The…
