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Raw contemporary art complex of galleries, an outdoor cinema, workshops and artist residencies beside ancient Fustat ruins.
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In 1977 a teenager named Moataz Nasr was caught in Cairo's bread-price riots and hit by gunfire; he survived, and decades later became one of Egypt's best-known contemporary artists. The guide follows him back to Old Cairo, behind the walls of Babylon Fortress, to explain the choice he made when he finally opened a home for young Egyptian artists there in 2008 and what he decided to call it. Along the way it walks you through the raw galleries, workshop rooms and rooftop lounge he built instead of a conventional museum.
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