A project by Henar El Kheshen and Marwa El Sayed

In their research Henar and Marwa focused on markets as one of the very few typologies of public spaces in which women in Cairo still have the right to exist. In their research the looked informal markets trying to put together a type of an underground Yellowpages of the city in the form of a website.

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In their website ‘Daleel El Mahzooza‘ they target women as a prime audience, they drove their idea from the Facebook groups that emerged lately to gather thousands of Egyptian ladies asking about where to buy cheap bed sheets or how to get your hair straightened  in Cairo. These groups raise a lot of questions regrading the city and how information is produced and propagated in it through the internet specially by women.

The informal types of markets like the one day markets specialized in foods and everyday utilities and the one hour markets that spread around the governmental institutions to target the employees after work or even the open days held in Maadi, is the content of this website. By looking at these temporal markets a new map of Cairo could be seen that sheds light over the socio-economic conditions of the city as well as zones of supply and demand.

Visit their website here