Life & Society
On a weekday evening in Cairo, when most are racing home, stuck in traffic, or squeezing in one last coffee, an unusually calm activity is happening at a café in the city. A group of strangers sits together with their books open and, for 20 minutes, no one speaks. Then the silence breaks. Chairs shift, pages close, and conversations begin. This rhythm, 20 minutes of reading, a conversation break, repeated three times, is the foundation of Reading After Work, a…
