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The microscope
I brought from Cairo.
I bought my microscope in Cairo’s Qasr El Einy area and went through the trouble of bringing it to Qatar. In a photograph posted on 1 July 2017, it stands on my desk beside books, notes and an American Chemical Society mug. I could return to it without waiting for a scheduled laboratory session.
حكاية مجهر اشتريته من منطقة القصر العيني في القاهرة وحملته معي إلى قطر. فيلم شخصي يعتمد على صور أرشيفية حقيقية، بترجمة إنجليزية وعربية، دون ادعاء تصوير الرحلة نفسها.
01 / watch the film
An instrument, a room, and time.
The photograph shows the microscope where it lived: on my desk in Qatar, within reach of the books and notes I returned to at home. I had carried it there from Cairo.
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This personal film draws on an archived photograph and a first-person recollection. It does not claim to show recorded footage of the journey from Cairo.