No Carrots for this Disease
No Carrots for this Disease is a 240-page academic research and photobook hybrid analysing and archiving the current expropriation in Cairo, Egypt.
Referred to as Cairo 2050 Vision under the Mobarak Regime, and currently executed by the Sisi government, the current capital is being devastatingly reshaped for the sake of its better version, the new administrative capital. Only 45km apart, the totalitarian military regime paints a fantasy of a modern future - a city built from scratch, and its counterpart, Cairo, disfigured for its revolutionary reminiscence. Gentrification becomes the perfect disease to obliterate collectivity, public space, past and potential revolutions.
The book has five main aims: to archive and immortalize the city, promote more research in a heated climate of political prisoners and media crackdowns, create conversation amidst bigger socio-economic gaps accelerated by the process of gentrification, prompt readers’ imagination by challenging the suppressed revolutionary spirit post Arab Spring and lastly reshape the idea of fantasy by reclaiming public space and sexual agency.
Referred to as Cairo 2050 Vision under the Mobarak Regime, and currently executed by the Sisi government, the current capital is being devastatingly reshaped for the sake of its better version, the new administrative capital. Only 45km apart, the totalitarian military regime paints a fantasy of a modern future - a city built from scratch, and its counterpart, Cairo, disfigured for its revolutionary reminiscence. Gentrification becomes the perfect disease to obliterate collectivity, public space, past and potential revolutions.
The book has five main aims: to archive and immortalize the city, promote more research in a heated climate of political prisoners and media crackdowns, create conversation amidst bigger socio-economic gaps accelerated by the process of gentrification, prompt readers’ imagination by challenging the suppressed revolutionary spirit post Arab Spring and lastly reshape the idea of fantasy by reclaiming public space and sexual agency.
