Mid-East Junction - How a group of artists based in Egypt tried to

Mid-East Junction - How a group of artists based in Egypt tried to change society

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Can art change society? It's not clear whether it can or not, but a group of artists in Egypt believed it could and set off to create such a vision hidden in the oasis governorate of Fayoum, just south of Cairo. Rfi's Anne-Marie Bissada has this report from the village of Tunis in the Fayoum.

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