Over the past few years, Cairo’s independent arts and cultural sector has increasingly made decisive efforts to reach and include Egyptians from more marginalized socioeconomic backgrounds, beyond the typical urban elite. The pioneering “Backstage Technical Professionalization Program” is one such striking example and recently featured in Studio Emad Eddin’s April 2019 press release heading: ‘Trainees of Studio Emad Eddin’s Backstage Program Take Their First Steps Towards Becoming Theatre Professionals.’ Since 2005, Downtown-based Studio Emad Eddin (SEE) Foundation, which is the first establishment of its sort it in Cairo, has been offering a range of workshops and training programs in theatrical production and other artistic fields to participants from different backgrounds. Its latest project entitled “Backstage,” provides professional training for the technical side of theatre production to a young group of inhabitants from the underprivileged district of Ezbet Khayrallah in Cairo, in collaboration with the district’s local NGO Tawasol, which was established back in 2008. Through this partnership, Tawasol has been able to promote the inclusion of young people from the community as well as assist in their enrolment in the program. Ezbet Khayrallah is one of Egypt’s largest and most…
Social Initiative Enables Future in Theatre Production for Unprivileged Youth in Ezbet Khayrallah
May 16, 2019
