Our educational program, the Makouk Institute, offers adults a space to learn, play and exchange experiences through our workshop programs (related to art, play and play based learning), games library and game nights.
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You can now subscribe and enjoy access to the Game Library, with additional benefits including discounts on game nights and educational workshops. The Makouk Institute Library features over 100 diverse board games, as well as a collection of books on game design, and play-based learning. Our space is designed for players, game designers, and Makouk enthusiasts who want to play, test their own games, read about games, or work quietly in Zamalek.
How to create and co-create through artistic expression?
As we walk we dance, we are storytellers almost on daily basis. Makouk creates spaces to capture the creative expression individually and collectively and use artistic mediums to explore our other themes.
Ali designs games and facilitates workshops, with an interest in exploring and understanding the space between play and learning. His work spans designing educational experiences, creating games, and facilitating activities. Ali is one of the co-founders of Makouk and has been involved in designing more than eight games produced by Makouk. He is also one of the educational experts there. His interests revolve around the question, "How can people sit together and create knowledge or anything else collaboratively?
Mariam Ramadan, the facilitator of the game art workshop at Ma3had Makouk, is a graphic designer and art director specializing in game art. With eight years of experience as a game artist, Mariam has a background in Graphic Design from The German University in Cairo. She has led design teams and managed projects such as the Dino Socks card game, Beladna board game, and Popular Stories (a children's book series).
Hossam Shokrallah is an art trainer, game designer, and programming instructor. His interests revolve around game design and programming, as well as woodworking, blacksmithing, sewing, 3D work, and leatherworking. He has won three awards in game design and development at the Global Game Jam competition in Egypt and has consulted on numerous game designs. He has also designed many game-based educational experiences in camps and workshops during his 11 years of work with the Arab Digital Expression Foundation. Currently, he works in the fields of design and education, where technology intersects with craftsmanship. He believes that free culture and open-source software are important for art, education, and expression.
Youssef loves shaping materials and manufacturing in general; you could say he's obsessed with this magical world. He studied scenography and discovered street arts in 2011, and since then, he has been drawn to the idea of arts in public spaces. He has been on a constant quest to acquire formative skills that he can use as expressive tools in these spaces. In recent years, he has been responsible for game production at Makouk.
Rehab Bassam is a writer, editor, and translator. She worked for ten years as a publishing manager, editor, and translator at Dar El Shorouk, with a special focus on children's books. She had the honor of working with many authors and illustrators from Egypt and the Arab world. Translating for children is one of her favorite tasks, having translated titles from the "Professor and Madam" series, such as "Professor Zagzag" and "Madam Bahiga." Recently, she has translated "Everything About Diversity," "Everything About Anxiety and Fears," "Everything About Emotions," and "Everything About Friends" for Dar El Shorouk. She has also worked with "Makouk" to publish the ten-book series "Our Folktales," which she edited and supervised. Rihab teaches Arabic to children through "Kalamna School" and has contributed to and supervised the writing and editing of "Kalamna Books," designed to train children in reading. Additionally, Rihab is a long-time blogger and authored the small pink book "Rice Pudding for Two," published by Dar El Shorouk in 2008. She is currently studying at Newcastle University in England for a Master's in Creative Writing.
We believe that magic lies in our ability to play in engagements and experiences. We believe in everyone’s journey to self learn, unlearn and relearn. Every journey matters! We also believe in the power of questions and dialogue in every exploration.
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