Egypt

Customized Training
Building resources for democracy,governance and electons
Lifelong traing
Support to new NGOs

Capacity Building Programs:
‘Express yourself through Comics workshop’
Mazg organized its first comics training workshop in February 2013. The 4 days workshop took place at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Cairo. The workshop was instructed by comics artist: Makhlouf and the scriptwriter Tamer Abdel Hamid. It was attended by 10 university students from Cairo and other governorates. The workshop provided training for young artists on the techniques of creating comics, including drawing and writing, and on promoting the use of comics as an alternative art form to self expression.
®Supported by The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression
Specialized Curriculum of Comics Making
Mazg created a specialized curriculum and training manual in the process of creating comic illustrations.  The content was a result of a long chain of sessions, with 7 of the most prominent comic artists in Egypt, sessions were held in the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), throughout April 2013.
The outcomes included a 6 days' workshop, for beginners and faux beginners on the techniques of drawing comics and comics script writing.
The manual is available for free online on the wiki link:
®Supported by ADEF
 

Time Difference workshop
Mazg seeks to decentralize its activities, and direct its efforts towards outreach and discovering young local talents living in the suburbs and rural areas around Egypt, as well as the centre, Cairo.  Within the context of our Outreach campaigns, we launched the Time Difference Workshop, which is targeted at governorates. The workshop applies the curriculum that Mazg developed in collaboration with ADEF. Participants learn the techniques of creating comics, and writing scripts for comics. We form work groups, which creatively join together to produce a comics novel over the period of 2 months. The novel is produced to completion at a ‘ready for print’ status.   
The first workshop was organized in June 2013, in Alexandria, the second largely populated city in Cairo. This was organised in coordination with Comicsawy, a group that works to promote the art of comics in Egypt. The workshop was instructed by young talents, including Hesham Rahma for comics art and Tamer Abdel Hamid for scriptwriting. Out of 65 applications received through an open call, 14 young artists made it successfully to the workshop.

The Eagle in You - a media training project for 1000 Egyptian youth over 3 years.
Love Life - A project to tackle HIV/AIDS in the Arab world using a TV docu-drama, web site and NGO capacity building.
Tomorrow Starts Now - a media training project for 200 Egyptian youth over 2 years.
Capture Life - A women's rights project, using the TV sitcom "Coiffeur Ashwaq" and the web site "Settat on Chat"

The main projects:
- Program for Sensitivity Training of Journalists toward Islam and Muslims in the Arab World (With Special Focus on Egypt)
- Program for Sensitivity Training of Journalists toward Euro-Mediterranean Multiculturalism.
- Training workshop on "the Dealing with Sexual harassment Cases in Egyptian Society".

We have an Academy of Media Station for training and media consultancy:
The Academy of Media Station is the first Academy of its kind based on rehabilitation cadres of information in all fields in all the provinces of Lower and the training in this select group of journalists and media professionals, academics, professionals, and focused academic education media creative, which depends on what it takes to society on the ground

Al Ettihad (Together for the Mediterranean)is an Online newspaper.
3 printed editions, one in Arabic, another one in English and a special edition in Braille for blinds.
We are planning to support and to be the media sponsor to any project, conference or authority working in the development field especially in the Mediterranean area.

MYF Scope of work:
Base: Youth (18-29)
Capacity Building Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Academy.
Cultural Exchange Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth on Track.
International Volunteering Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Volunteers.
Safe Spaces and Social Capital Building Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Café.

Base: Youth (18-29)
 

Capacity Building Field: Project’s name: No One Behind.

Cultural Exchange and Intercultural Dialogue Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth on Track.

International Volunteering Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Volunteers.

Safe Spaces and Social Capital Building Field: Project’s name: Mediterranean Youth Café.

Social Entrepreneurship Field: Mediterranean Youth Incubator

Youth, peace and security Field:  Dialogue on the Human Fraternity Document

The Field of Youth / Human Rights: The Mediterranean initiative for human rights education through art and sport

The Field of Gender Justice: Mediterranean Women Ship

The Field of Environment and Climate Change: Mediterranean Initiative for Climate

Youth Studies and Policies Field: Mediterranean Youth Center for Youth Studies and Policies

Our team Reached to 203 people from June 2023 to March 2024 by presenting may .
Safe : A project that targeted women who had suffered from a state of separation from the body as a result of abuse towards their bodies. Through the use of mind-body techniques and therapeutic belly dancing, we were able to help them reconnect with their bodies and live within it again.
Koly w akly : A project that works to increase awareness of food problems such as (bulimia, anorexia, bieng , emotional eating , and others) and how to deal with them in a healthy way by showing short documentary films about real people who received support from our initiative because they were suffering from the problem. Awareness is increased by discussing the film in a scientific manner. Target group: those who suffer from food problems or those working in the medical field to support those who suffer from food problems.

Taaraf taod lwahdak : workshop for 3 days Raising awareness and knowing the reasons for our inability to adopt self compation as a pattern in our lives to increase the quality of healthy life . our methodology was playing and movment therapy .

Capsula : lecture Important informations about vitamins .when & how you take it To have a Great absorbtion and effecency . for women . Age 18 to 40 .
Break the shame circle : A 3-day workshop on sexual awareness for women about the difference between sexual myths and facts, the impact of sexual abuse on our bodies and sex, followed by support groups and dance therapy.

Cancer fighters :For women who have suffered from cancer or are still suffering, there are support groups that support and promote living in the here and now with acceptance and forming a bond between the group through play therapy, movement and art.

Delwaati : A workshop aimed at mindfulness and self-awareness. through mindfulness & Art therapy .

Sekka : A long-term program followed by a fellowship for recipients aimed at helping people with eating disorders and dysphoric body image disorders

Inside out : A journey for women inside their bodies to get rid of social shame and the impact of abuse in a safe circle using Body-Mind technique.

My plate : Nutrition awareness for children, adolescents, parents, and school teachers, in addition to enhancing psychological resilience to confront the threat of bullying.
All of these projects are based on self-financing and some contributions from participants.

Roznama - competition and exhibition
It is a periodical competition and exhibition for contemporary visual art. Roznama intends to function as
an art and cultural incubator to nurturing the growth of artists, to boost their technical capabilities and
spread their artworks. This competition is founded with the intention of moving beyond popular and
academic perspective in the established arts, towards the investigation of new and experimental media
arts practices.
Roznama - Studio program
Roznama studio program is an alternative experimental granted mentorship addressed to Egyptian
emerging artists. The studio program aims to explore the artistic Egyptian scene by using experimental
means, sets about questioning, scrutinising and probing the institutionalisation and presentation of
contemporary art. Through an eight-months program, selected artists will be mentored, and trained on
different art medium to provide them with an alternative perspective to examine and explore the world we
live in.

Cairo Video Festival
Cairo Video Festival’s vision is to highlight worldwide experiments in the moving image, and
particularly video art. The Cairo Video Festival function as a platform for further and extended
conversations between video-artists, curators and the public, and a space for artists to
showcase their innovative, low-budget video art productions that are selected according to
quality, authenticity and conviction in investigation of subject matter.
Through a month of screenings, artists talks, and discussions the Cairo Video Festival fosters
this growing public interest in new media production and experimentation to expose audiences
to artists and concepts from around the world. The festival is Medrar’s first contribution to the art
scene in 2005 and is the project through which Medrar was later established. It started as a
collective of visual artists who were experimenting with a new medium and took the initiative to
establish themselves the space in which their works, along with works from all over the world,
would be shown in the heart of this vigorous city.

Medrar TV
Medrar.TV is an online contemporary Arab arts channel, operating from Cairo Egypt. It produces
bilingual documentary videos about contemporary Arab visual arts, music, performance, theater
and film., and covers exhibitions, shows, concerts, festivals, and also document studio visits and
one-on-one discussions among artists. Medrar TV’s goal is to create an engaging and
accessible resource on contemporary Arab art that is useful to the art community, organizations,
funders, historians, journalists, critics, students and the general public.
MedrarTV’s media programs target the general public, but its extensive media archive of events,
exhibitions, interviews, talks and symposiums serves as a repository of contemporary arts
activities regionally as well as internationally (when content is related to local practices). This
content will soon be available online and open to access for artists, curators, educators,
researchers and the general public. MedrarTV also trains local videographers and editors in arts
documentation through on-the-job training and occasional workshops with both local and
international partners.

MedRX
The capacities of immersive media to artistically and creatively translate space and place, and evoke empathy and care for areas of concern and communities of practice, are foregrounded. MedRX is a long-term program that champions the creation of counter-narratives that reimagine our world and alter our understanding of global and local matters. Sprouting from the cooperative principles and progressive objectives of accessibility in digital fields nurtured by the Open Lab Egypt (OLE) project from 2009 to 2014, MedRX expands through the ideals of dynamic interactions, communication, and collaborations within the XR context.
MedRX provides unique interactive, participatory experiences and alternative spaces of experimentation for artists, audiences, and cultural practitioners to develop local knowledge in the field and provide artists and art practitioners with opportunities to explore, develop, and showcase their XR projects. It strives to bridge the gap between alternative artistic research and production by facilitating and developing labs, workshops, exchanges, lectures, exhibitions, and events. It integrates new media, immersive technologies, extended realities that span virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, creative coding, and digitronic arts with a multitude of visual and auditory artistic practices. These components are linked to one another to build a sustainable ecosystem of digital art production and technologies.