Huda
Shaarawi was an important Egyptian feminist in the first part of 20th
century in the whole Arabic area. The couple had their Cairo
residence in these days in the street which is named after her. The
video was made during the Mursi Government which was connected with the
Muslim Brotherhood. They wanted to rename the street and even eliminate
Huda Shaarawi from the history and school books. The video
performance took place
on the roof of their residential building. The night before there was a
burning on the roof of the neighbour house. In the video the
couple is playing quitly a toi version of the tarditional Rababa
instrument. The sounds they made
by these
childrens toi instruments are scarcely audible while from below, the
typical Cairo street noise filtered through.
