Sunday Feature: Stirring Up a RevolutionSeries 1, episode 0Writer Tarek Osman explores how cafes and coffee houses have shaped politics and culture in the Middle East. Tarek visits 500-year-old cafes in Tunis, famous haunts of Nobel prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz in Cairo, buzzing 'Western' style cafes full of both men and women, and the vandalised but still open coffee houses clinging to the outskirts of Tahrir Square. The programme includes the poetry and prose that was born in the cafe and that in turn immortalises this ancient institution. Tarek also speaks to the new generation of thinkers, writers and activists who frequent new venues and steps back in time to uncover hidden printing presses and prowling policeme Click to see when Sunday Feature, Stirring Up a Revolution is coming up on UK TV |
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