From Cairo is an award-winning documentary about the lives of young women in Cairo today. Heba and Aya, two single women face their fears and dare to go after their dreams.

Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University

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"The series aims to introduce innovative interdisciplinary research in the area between Arabic literature and poetics, literary theory and comparative literature."

Emily Apter, New York University

Anneka Lenssen, University of California, Berkeley