Rewinding Time: Inside Egypt’s Cassette Revival with Amr Hamid (opens in new tab)

Before Anghami, Spotify playlists and viral TikTok sounds, there was the soft click of a cassette sliding into place, the whirr of tape rewinding, and album covers that told stories before a single note played. Across Egypt, these tapes once carried the voices, aesthetics, and identities of an entire generation. Today, many of them are lost, forgotten in drawers, abandoned studios, or sold off in secondhand markets. But, one man is trying to bring them back. For artist and researcher Amr Hami...