Cairo Hackerspace: The Infinite Rollercoaster!
The Cairo Hackerspace is grateful for the many messages of concern and offers of help it has received in the past many months. Given the ongoing ups-and-downs of running our space in the current climate in Egypt, we appreciate all of your kind and motivating words. In November 2015, we were working on an ambitious project to build a mobile makerspace which would visit schools around Egypt. The plan was to spread the idea of making and hacking to kids, who benefit the most from learning how to use their hands and minds to solve problems creatively at an early age. The larger goal of this project was to address the need for better alternative technical and technological education in our country, which we had hoped to provide with traveling workshops. However, on 28 December 2015, our space was shut down after the governmental interagency raid on our host, the Townhouse Gallery. The motivations for this raid have still not been fully clarified, but ultimately resulted in the indefinite sealing of all Townhouse property, including the studio housing the Cairo Hackerspace. We began t