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El Nahda Association For Scientific and Cultural Renaissance (Jesuit Cairo)

El Nahda Association For Scientific and Cultural Renaissance (Jesuit Cairo) has been working in Egypt for more than 20 years.

El Nahda started in 1998 as a small initiative, it has grown into an important and recognized place providing people with art education and securing a free space for artists to produce and show their art, through four schools: Cinema school, Animation school, Theatre school, and Human science, as well as other activities aiming to help young people to express their issues and those of Egyptian society.

the organization has sought to contribute to cultural justice and freedom of expression by empowering marginalized youth, children, artists, local communities, and vulnerable groups by providing access to means of expression and enabling this deprived sector to practice art in Cairo and other provinces, especially Upper Egypt.

This continued commitment by El Nahda to empower youth and marginalized areas by providing tools, space, guidance, and ongoing cognitive production of Arab content is best demonstrated through its various activities, workshops, and seminars.

'''El Nahda as a place came into being as part of a growing wave of independent spaces, allowing access to tools, materials, content, and guidance for a wide range of audiences in various cultural and artistic fields. In this context, El Nahda is fighting the centralization of arts and culture in the capital by seeking to reach the marginalized communities where capacity and potential are still unexplored.'''

'''The association's activities are also well received by leading intellectuals, researchers, and writers in Egypt, including the great intellectual Mohammed Abul Ghar, who had said in an article in Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper about El Nahda project: "This is an amazing cultural project located in the center of Cairo, which trains and educates hundreds of young men and women from all over Egypt on different types of arts, leaving a significant impact on the youth and the future of arts and culture. All of this is done by a registered civil society organization, El Nahda Association for Scientific and Cultural Renaissance (Jesuit Cairo), which was founded in 1998. The association brought together a group of Egyptian Muslim and Christian intellectuals with Jesuit fathers, based in Al-Mahrani Street in Al-Fagala. In 2016, the Society established the Renaissance Academy for Arts and Literature, which operates in the historic Naseebian Studio, which was founded in the 1930s and had hosted all of Egypt's mega stars during the golden age of cinema. Besides the arts and literature academy, other activities are being offered, such as the Cinema School, which was launched in 2005. It is the first independent film school that targets youth who are fascinated by cinema -in Cairo and Upper Egypt. The requirements to join this school are talent and seriousness. It is an opportunity for the gifted who did not get a chance to join the public cinema institute.'''

Also in 2016, Assiut Documentary Film School was established to train young Egyptians on low-budget documentaries.

'''The academy conducts several workshops and publishes what could be Egypt's most important cinema magazine. For the past 25 years, the association has been hosting film screenings followed by discussions, and has contributed to developing the cinematic culture of thousands of interested Egyptians. El-Nahda School for Social Theatre, an initiative to create a theatrical stream, trains young people on theatre techniques. Plays are then performed in villages in Upper Egypt and in squares and streets in common neighborhoods. This initiative has created theatre awareness, which resulted in many theatrical groups in various parts of Upper Egypt.'''

'''Afterwards, the first independent animation school was set up to teach animation-filmmaking. The Naseebian historical studio is the center of life for the academy. Movies, concerts, cultural programs, and theatrical shows are staged there. In addition, the School of Human Sciences was established to encourage young people to discuss issues of thought and culture.'''