The Perfumed Garden is an autobiography of another Arab World. Its characters and settings are real people and real places. The Casting project is a series of interviews conducted with people in different Arab cities as auditions to become characters in a novel.
The Cairo Casting project has been made possible with the support of Goethe-Institut Kairo
The Amman Casting project has been made possible with the support of The Amman Lab of Studio-X, a regional platform for experimental research and design in Architecture, run by Columbia University's GSAPP and Columbia Global Centers | Middle East.