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Kerima Nashat handed me a heavy lamp filled with small, familiar-looking objects. “Can you guess what these are?” she asked. I was stumped. After a few wrong guesses, she smiled and finally revealed the answer: “They’re bullets from Wadi Degla.” She’d gathered them with her daughter, spray-painted them, and glued them to the interior of the lamp with epoxy. The result? A beautiful silver lamp perfect for complementing any modern living space. Only a thrift shop owner would know how…