Beautiful Destinations Release Mini-Documentary on the Rise of Egypt’s Mahraganat Subculture.

Despite whether Mahraganat is necessarily your genre of choice, the subculture’s meteoric rise to commercial success is certainly undeniable. Rather than taking the approach of looking at Cairo from a traditional cultural or anqitquities lense, this new mini-documentary from one of the biggest online travel platform's in the world, Beautiful Destinations, showcases a different, newly emerging side of Egypt; the musical boom of the past couple years, told from the perspective of some of Mahraganat’s youngest voices in 'Cairo: A New Era'

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Filmed by Matias De Rada and Sage Stephens, the entire 4-minute production is incredibly shot, with sweeping drone-eye-views, intense close-ups, and a keen eye for detail. Rather than showing a glamorized, high-end vision of Egypt, the documentary is mostly street-level, taking us through packed marketplaces and dusty side streets. Featuring a voiceover from, and appearances by, Mahraganat artists Wezza Montaser, 3enaabb, and Said Fatla — alongside dancer Abdala Sadam — the video presents and impassioned take