Visual Archive of Fabienne Le Houérou, Research Program “Refugees in Egypt”, 2006.

This video was shot in Cairo by Fabienne le Houérou with Barbara Harell-Bond in Cairo during the spring of 2006. She had asked me to publish this video after she passed away. In memory of her great commitment to the dispossessed, I do post this Visual Archive of mine. My gratitude goes to professor Barbara for being an inspiring researcher and for the years (2001/2006) we worked together at the American University in Cairo, teaching but also participating to the legal aid program we set up in 2002-2003-2004.

In this rare interview, BHB narrates the massacre of the Sudanese refugees in Cairo near the UNHCR office in Mohandessen during the winter 2005 in a place called Mustapha Mahmoud. She describes the high level of complexity concerning the combination of responsibilities for this abhorrent event leading to the death and injuries of a few hundred of Sudanese refugees. She very honestly evokes the unvonlunteer responsibility of the Academics at AUC (including her) – giving voices to the refugees in a way that put them at risk- and the influence of refugees leaders who lied to the protesters and at last the dreadful role of the security forces of the former Egyptian president.