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| March 30th, 2012
I thought I would share a couple of my attempts to start to put the material I had gathered over break together. The cover photograph is a collage, a technique I used to storyboard, I found it easier to get to know the material when I was physically... -
| February 1st, 2012
It is unclear when exactly my grandfather moved to Kuwait. My memory of the story was that he escaped Cairo by boat through Alexandria to Kuwait in 1952, just before the Free Officers Revolution, and never looked back until his return in 2003.... -
| January 22nd, 2012
When I visited Kuwait, as I was flipping through the photographs that inspired this project, I found an old photo-album of scans of the pictures. In this album my grandfather had annotated each photo in the margins, framing the time and place of the... -
| January 14th, 2012
Filming in Egypt was no easy task, for there was an atmosphere of suspicion that I did not expect. My mind was still entrapped in the euphoric freedom that exploded during the early days of the revolution, where a constant stream of videos premiered... -
| January 7th, 2012
The Egyptian parliamentary elections currently underway, have been charged with being purposely overly complicated to deter voters. However, there appear to be some efforts to simplify the process. Each party and electoral candidate is given, or if... -
| January 5th, 2012
So after a few days of interviews and trouping around historic areas we decided to take a detour and visit the Townhouse Gallery in the Mechanic's district in Cairo. William Wells founded the Townhouse Gallery in 1998 in an effort to create a space... -
| January 2nd, 2012
The photograph above is the door to the house where my grandfather was born in 1923 Cairo, shortly after the Egyptian monarcy was installed under British Imperial rule. It is located in a neighborhood called Rod El Farj. The neighborhood consists... -
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December 19th, 2011
The events of January 2011 in Tahrir Square, Egypt, and the subsequent toppling of the Mubarak regime lit a surprising spark within me; the warmth of pride. Pride that I did not expect to feel. My grandfather, Ismail Ali Sayed, a youth in Cairo...
Tala Worrell
Profile
I am an AT&T New Media Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and a Brown undergraduate concentrator in visual arts. For my fellowship, I am tracing the story of my late grandfather, a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood dedicated to resisting British colonialism, and producing a mini-documentary using his extensive archives alongside modern-day interviews to shed light on the recent revolution in Egypt.
