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†ºAs part of the Egyptian Women’s Day NGO Committee, the Women and Memory Forum presented a storytelling event during the celebration of Egyptian Women’s Day held on March 16th 2001 at Mubarak Public Library in Cairo.
º The “Storytelling Group” held a storytelling session at the Bashayer Center in Helwan on July 10, 2001. This was followed by an open discussion on gender equality. Another session was held at an invitation from ADEW (Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women) at Manshiyat Nasser in Cairo on 26 July 2001.
 
†ºAnother storytelling event was held to a different audience in the Oriental Hall at AUC (American University in Cairo) on October 2nd 2001, at an invitation from the Gender Institute. Similarly, the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University invited the storytelling group to hold an event at the university on December 11, 2001. The storytelling was followed by an open discussion with the students and faculty.
 
†ºThe storytelling is acquiring more performative dimensions due to the professional input of the theater director Caroleen Khalil. This became clear during the storytelling held at Beit El-Harrawi in Al-Azhar district in Cairo on 8 - 9 November 2001, attracting a large and diverse audience. The storytelling aims at orally disseminating the stories written during the “Gender-Sensitive Tales and Feminist Stories” workshops held at WMF since 1998, re/writing tales from the Arabian Nights as well as Egyptian folk tales and children’s stories. The workshop together with the storytelling events aim at disseminating feminist texts in an attempt to introduce gender awareness into popular culture.

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