During Sufi festivals in Egypt everything that has been thrown out the city walls or pushed into oblivion returns to it. In the unique carnival space-time behaviors attributed to groups excluded from the project of modern society are accepted. Everyone is a guest at the celebration of a saint’s anniversary and this perspective creates a certain exception in social relations. The festivals are what they should be: a space-time of transgression, in which family and social control is loosened. A mulid is a part of reality in which thieves and lawyers, prostitutes and priests are temporarily equal. Whoever you are, mulid space allows you to experience freedom - however, mind that you enter at your own risk.
Read more:
bit.ly/mulidcairo
28 сен 2019
