Culture & Lifestyle
In the village of Baghdad, on the outskirts of Alexandria, a flatbed truck pulled up beside a primary school on 3 August and unfolded into a stage. A puppet show followed, then workshops in beadwork and stencil printing, and a folk-music set that drew children from nearby homes. By evening, a dusty schoolyard had become, briefly, a theater. The vehicle is Egypt’s mobile theater, a state-run initiative to extend cultural life beyond Cairo into places that have never had a…
