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All photos by Samuli Schielke unless otherwise indicated

1. Map of , 2016. (Based on Open Street Maps and Google Maps) 2. A symposium at the Writers’ Union, November 2019. 3. Mounir Oteiba discusses narrative technique at Mukhtabar al-Sardiyat, November 2019. 4. Amr Abdelrahman presents the work of Karl Marx at the Nuqaddim lakum (we present to you) series of social theory at El Cabina, October 2014. 5. The entrance of Fabrica, March 2015. 6. Gathering at Café El Hindi, after a class of the Alexandria branch of the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, November 2019. 7. Visitors from El Mansoura and Alexandria strolling through the Cairo International Book Fair, February 2017. 8. A book signing (haflat tawqiʿ) combined with a critical debate (munaqasha) of a short story collection by Mohamed Abbady, at Fabrica, with Alshimaa Hamed moderating the discussion, April 2014. 9. An open evening (umsiya) at Al-Nadi al-Masri, March 2014. 10. Cover of The Taste of Ash by Abdelfattah Morsi, designed by the author. 11. Alshimaa Hamed at one of the workshop meetings, February 2015. 12. Heba Farouk speaking at a critical debate of her first book at Mukhtabar al-Sardiyat, April 2016. 13. Eman Salah writing in her notebook at one of the workshop meetings, February 2015. 14. Graffiti in downtown Cairo featuring Rami al-Sharqawi. (Photo by Shady Basiony Marei, April 2012. Reproduced with permission) 15. Graffiti outside Alexandria University, October 2012. 16. The Chinese Housing, April 2016. 17. The seafront by Raml Station, October 2011. 18. The Mediterranean Sea during a winter storm, , February 2012. 19. Opening of the ʾAlbi Album exhibition, El Cabina, 23 October 2011. 20. Entrance to Mallaha Street in inland , East of the City, March 2016. 21. ‘Leave’, Kom El-Dikka, November 2011. 22. Layers of wall-writings rendered illegible, , October 2016. 23. ‘No to Mubarak’ (erased), Raml Station, November 2011. 24. ‘The Sons of 25 January Property and Furnished Apartments. Tel. 0100 553274’, Miami, February 2012. 25. ‘We’ll be back’ (stencilled), ‘Together we build . Nour Party’ (election posters), Raml Station, November 2011. 26. ‘The people and the army and the police are in the service of Egypt’, Corniche between and , November 2011. 27. ‘Egypt’, Shatby, November 2011. 28. Raml Station, November 2011. 29. ‘Oh my head’, Port Said Street, November 2011. 30. ‘I love you’ (name partly obliterated), Sidi Gaber, November 2011.

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31. ‘Looking to buy an apartment for a suitable price’, ‘Looking to buy an apartment’, ‘Natural healing in homes’, ‘Marriage registrar’, ‘Satellite dish installation’, ‘Al-Zamalek’, El Mandara Station, November 2011. 32. ‘Mistriss [sic] slave 010 5434267’, Al-Qaʾid Ibrahim, February 2012. 33. ‘Mobile 0123760878. Registered plot not for sale or partnership’, Kom El Dikka, March 2012. 34. ‘Garage: no parking, you shameless donkey’, El Mandara, November 2011. 35. ‘Say the name of God’, Raml Station, October 2012. 36. ‘Did you pray for the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) today?’, Raml Station, October 2014. 37. ‘In the name of the All-Merciful God {Whatever good you may have, it is from God} This is the true speech of the Mighty God’, Raml Station, February 2014. 38. ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’, ‘In the name of All-Merciful God {And they schemed, and God schemed; and God is the best of schemers} This is the true speech of the Mighty God’, , September 2017. 39. ‘ACAB’ (All Cops Are Bastards). Signed: ‘U.W.K 07’ (Ultras White Knights 07), Sidi Bishr, March 2012. 40. ‘Isaad’s marriage, workforce and real estate services’, ‘Moʾmen’, Azarita, October 2016. 41. ‘Morsi 2012 God is great’, Miami, October 2012. 42. ‘Isolate your ceiling Morsi before the winter 01211174112’, Raml Station, January 2013. 43. ‘No to the Front of Wreckage’, ‘No to the Front of Wreckage and Destruction and Bankruptcy’, ‘Free Hassan Mustafa’, ‘Your property and blood are inviolable’, Shatby, February 2013. 44. ‘America spies on all humans through satellites (on every home)’, El Mandara, January 2013. 45. Sidi Bishr, February 2014. 46. ‘Al-Mutamayyiz Advertisements, mobile 01220092941. We love you El-Sisi and I hope you will be my president. Egypt first. I love you C.C. With greetings from Your President’s Support Campaign’, Sidi Bishr, February 2014. 47. ‘Traitor C.C’. in a scene from the soap opera The Sun Will Never Set (La tutfiʾ al-shams). Source: http://urlz.fr/6dys, published 11 June 2017, viewed 23 July 2017. 48. ‘Mohab will return, God willing’, ‘The speech God loves most: exalted be God; and praise to God; and there is no deity but God; and God is great’, Al-Masakin al-Siniya, February 2017. 49. ‘And I wonder how your fragrance spreads without your presence’, next to a stencilled advertisement for hearing aids, Corniche by Ibrahimiya, September 2017. 50. ‘Never mind’, probably on the Alexandria seafront, posted by S. on 22 March 2017. (Date, photographer, and original source unknown) 51. ‘They sedated you in the artery and said: your apathy is good for the homeland’, location unknown. (https://lc.cx/gTPQ) 52. The homeward journey begins after a pilgrimage to Sidi Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, Humaythara, February 2017.