In Many Worlds

Abstract

When she has free time between herresponsibilities atthe universityand at home, Sabah Naeem sits in her family's apartment in a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, meticulously rolling and twisting newspapers into tightly woven balls. She takes print from Arabic, English, and French-language newspapers and coils or folds them together, creatinga visual reference to the three cultural or colonial influences on contemporary Egyptian life. Sometimes patches of colored advertisements from the local press appear amidst these textual twists and folds—including