Toobaa

“Like the court, the terrace was an essential part of the house where women spent many hours of the day, working and socializing with their neighbors. The dense configuration of the casbah made it possible to pass from one terrace to the other and visit other homes without having to use the streets. The rooftops of the casbah functioned as an alternative public realm that extended over the entire city. In contrast to the interiorized court and the relatively contrived rooms, the rooftops opened up to the city, to the sea, to the world. With the appropriation of this space by the women of Algiers, the casbah became divided horizontally into two realms: on the top, occupying the expanse of the entire city, were the women; at the bottom, the streets belonged to the men.”

Pause everything forever for a moment.

Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes

― Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Olivier Schram, Peshawar, Pakistan, 1988 

10. Relieves inflammation