The “Breaking Down News” workshop unfolded as a one-day lab for critical reading, rewriting, and creative play 📰✂️
The session created an open space for unpacking media narratives and everyday language, examining how headlines, social media posts, and public discourse construct stereotypes, exclusion, and coded hate speech.
Throughout the workshop, we tackled concepts such as Russell’s conjugation, media bias, framing, and linguistic manipulation, as part of a broader attempt to question how “truth” is produced, and who benefits from sustaining existing narrative systems.
Through collective analysis and rewriting, participants transformed harmful texts into neutral, rights-based, and creative counter-narratives and social commentary, using tools like image/text collage and blackout poetry.
This pilot activity was organised in the framework of the project National youth campaigns against hate speech, which is implemented by the No Hate Speech Network, with the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Council of Europe.
ورشة «Breaking Down News | تفكيك الأخبار» كانت معمل ليوم واحد للقراءة النقدية، إعادة الكتابة، واللعب الإبداعي 📰✂️
الورشة خلقت مساحة مفتوحة لتفكيك السرديات الإعلامية واللغة اليومية، واشتغلنا فيها على فهم إزاي العناوين، منشورات السوشيال ميديا، والخطاب العام بيصنعوا صور نمطية، إقصاء، وخطاب كراهية مُقنّع.
على مدار الورشة، ناقشنا مفاهيم زي Russell’s Conjugation و الانحياز الإعلامي و تأطير الخبر، و التلاعب اللغوي — في محاولة أوسع لطرح أسئلة عن إزاي الحقيقة بتتكوّن، ومين المستفيد من استمرار أنظمة السرد الحالية.
من خلال التحليل الجماعي وإعادة الصياغة، المشاركين حوّلوا نصوص ضارة إلى سرديات بديلة محايدة، قائمة على الحقوق، وتعليقات اجتماعية إبداعية، باستخدام أدوات زي الكولاج النصّي/البصري، وشعر التعتيم.
تم تنظيم هذا النشاط التجريبي في إطار مشروع الحملات الوطنية للشباب ضد خطاب الكراهية، والذي تنفذه شبكة “لا لخطاب الكراهية”، بدعم مالي من المؤسسة الأوروبية للشباب التابعة لمجلس أوروبا. ولا تعكس الآراء الواردة بالضرورة الموقف الرسمي لمجلس أوروبا.
BREAKING DOWN NEWS — Creative Media Analysis Workshop
Language shapes how we see each other. Headlines, captions, and everyday phrases can carry subtle bias, stereotypes, or even coded hate speech. This workshop is your space to slow down, dissect those narratives, and rebuild them into something rooted in care, creativity, and intentionality.
Join us for a hands-on evening of media analysis, rewriting, collage, and creative counter-narrative making.
📅 Thursday, December 18th, 2025
🕕 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 The Third Place by Mazraa — Maadi, Cairo
💛 Free of charge
✂️ Feel free to bring your own collage materials (old magazines, newspapers, printouts).
🔗 Limited spaces available — Register now before December 16th through the link in our bio!
Come rewrite the story with us.
This pilot activity was organised in the framework of the project National youth campaigns against hate speech, which is implemented by the No Hate Speech Network, with the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Council of Europe.
BREAKING DOWN NEWS — ورشة في التحليل الإعلامي الإبداعي
اللغة ليها قوة كبيرة… بتشكّل إزاي بنشوف بعض، وإزاي بنفهم العالم حوالينا. عناوين الأخبار، منشورات السوشيال ميديا، والجُمل اللي بنقولها كل يوم ممكن تشيل جواها تحيّزات خفية، صور نمطية، أو حتى خطاب كراهية متغلف بكلمات لطيفة.
الورشة دي مساحة نبطّئ فيها، نفتح النصوص دي ونفككها، ونبني من جديد سرديات أرفق، أعمق، وأكثر إنسانية.
هنقضي مع بعض مساء عملي فيه تحليل عناوين، إعادة كتابة، وكولاج، وتجارب فنية لإعادة تخيّل الحكايات من منظور مختلف.
📅 الخميس 18 ديسمبر 2025 🕕 6–9 مساءً 📍 The Third Place by Mazraa — المعادي، القاهرة 💛 الورشة مجانية بالكامل ✂️ ونشجّعكم تجيبوا معاكم أي خامات كولاج بتحبوها (مجلات قديمة، جرائد، مطبوعات…).
🔗 الأماكن محدودة — والتسجيل مفتوح لحد 16 ديسمبر من خلال اللينك في البايو.
تعالوا نعيد كتابة الحكاية سوا.
تم تنظيم هذا النشاط التجريبي في إطار مشروع الحملات الوطنية للشباب ضد خطاب الكراهية، والذي تنفذه شبكة “لا لخطاب الكراهية”، بدعم مالي من المؤسسة الأوروبية للشباب التابعة لمجلس أوروبا. ولا تعكس الآراء الواردة بالضرورة الموقف الرسمي لمجلس أوروبا.
The Third Place Presents: EBRA
EBRA (Ebrahem Saleh) is a violinist with over a decade of experience, shaped by his work with ensembles such as the Cairo Improvisation Orchestra and various experimental music workshops. These collaborations inspired his debut musical project and first live performance.
His project unfolds across six musical episodes, each expressing a human emotion that often goes unspoken. Through the voice of the violin, EBRA explores internal states of fragility, tension, hope, and release crafting a contemporary soundscape where unexpressed feelings find their language.
📅 December 14th
⏰ 7 PM
🔗 Registration link in BIO
Poster Design: @mahraanoo
Thank you to everyone who came yesterday, and for giving me the space to perform. For so long, my sanctuary was my room — creating melodies and words, whispers of the night, songs that demanded to be made. I sang in the shadows, alone.
Yesterday was the first time in a very long while that I opened up and shared this part of myself, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who responded. Grateful to those who chose to share this moment with me as well.
There was an eerie feeling in realizing these songs are no longer mine alone, but the ball is rolling, and I know I will grow with it. 🌕✨
Special thanks to @thethirdplaceeg for the space and for the beginning.
Jam Session This Friday!
Whether you want to play, sing, or enjoy the night, come through and let’s gather around the love of music.
📅 Date: Friday, November 28th
⏰ Time: 8 PM
🔗 Regrestration Link in BIO
Poster Design: @mahraanoo
Our excting lineup for the 27th!!
Adam Rose is singer & songwriter. Sitting at the intersection of R&B, neo-soul, and indie, he blends the warmth of soul with the raw intimacy of indie music. Built on organic, folk-inspired, instrument driven arrangements, his work centers around authenticity and storytelling. Rooted in lived experience, honesty, and reflection the result feels both nostalgic and modern; a soulful indie sound ✨
LAIL is born when voices rise to the moon singing يا ليل يا عين. She is the oracle of night, a vessel for stories darkness keeps sacred. Through her music, the unseen becomes audible through rhythms that echo like ancient prayers, her sound is ancestral and dreamlike, a remembrance of something the soul knew before the body. LAIL invites you to the sanctuary of the night, where emotion becomes devotion and every note draws you into the mystery 🌑
We can't wait to hear what they have in store for us.
📅 Date: November, 27th
⌚ Time: 8:00 PM
🔗 Regrestration Link in BIO
Music Night At The Third Place!!
Come experience an evening of live performance with exciting artists at our cozy place!
📅 Date: Thursday, November 27th
⌚ Time: 8:00PM
📍 Location and registration is right through our link in bio
See you soon 🪷
We're very excited to have Islam Wael on Saturday!
Islam began his own journey and released his debut album, Ya Aalam, which reflects his musical style and a blend of diverse cultural influences.
📅 Date: Saturday, November 15th
🛑 Registration is right through Bio
A Special Music Night Ahead!! ✨
We're pleased to hold a music night on Saturday, November 15th hosting two great musicians. Join us for a cozy evening filled with live music and fun tunes.
📅 Date: Saturday, November 15th
⏰ Time: 8 PM
📍 Location and registration details are available through link in Bio
