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Bahia Shehab

Artist and designer

Jun 1, 2026

17:25
Talk to me about some of the main figures in that two-decade period.
17:31
I think it's not figures in as much as, yes, of course, there were important political figures, but for me, what I found is because of the war, there were certain social aspects that were very important, like the agricultural material that you are showing here from the industry.
17:51
A lot of advertising for huge agricultural machines, to try because Egypt is an agricultural country or had an agricultural system.
18:01
So a lot of these machines were being advertised and sold to people.
18:06
The other thing is the entertainment and the tobacco industry, which was fascinating for me to discover.
18:13
It is the first international Egyptian export before cotton, it was tobacco.
18:19
And the reason for that is that the Greek and the Turkish businessmen found a really healthy setup because the government was providing support for entrepreneurs and business people to set up business in Egypt.

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45:04
I want to go to the car stuff for a second, because how successful were these ads? I mean, how successful were the story of the Ramses ads?

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