A screengrab of "A Man’s Shadow".
Please join us for an informal discussion with two women from an innovative Egyptian community group that uses media to reach and to empower women, youth and residents of Cairo's slums.
We will meet with them at:
Time: 6 pm Wednesday April 20th
Location: Columbia College,Journalism Department, Room 219
33 E. Congress, (Congress and Wabash) Chicago, Illinois
The group is Media-Arts for Development. And it is the only one of its kind in Egypt and possibly the Arab world. They use media – video mostly – to provide messages to women about the most critical and highly sensitive issues in Egypt – issues that until a few months ago you would not find in the state news media or even the struggling independent media. These are stories about young women sold as brides, about women who have no rights –all critical issues that have long gone unexamined.
These also use animation to reach children to talk about their rights and identify and democracy and these were used recently in the social media wave that washed over Egypt.
Here's the link to Media-Arts for Development's web page: http://madevegypt.org/index.html
Here's a video, urging women to walk in their own shadows:
For more information —
Stephen Franklin
ethnic news media project director, the Community Media Workshop
steve@newstips.org,
office: 312 369 7782
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