Tamer Mahmoud

Tamer Mahmoud

Synergos Social Entrepreneur & Founder, Safinat Nooh

Tamer Mahmoud is a confounder and director of Safinat Nooh, (Noah’s Ark) an independent theater company which works to develop authentic young voices around Alexandria through collective media creation. For ten years, Safinat Nooh has been encouraging young people to share their personal experiences in a more creative context.

The organization conducts unique workshops to assist participants in producing, short, first-person stories that can be presented in a variety of traditional and contemporary formats, including social media. Safinat Nooh provides non-threatening production environments in which the process of creation is as valued as the stories created.

Through partnerships with a range of organizations and institutions, Safinat Nooh is able not only to help craft these stories, but also to ensure their proper presentation. By discussing the challenges facing Egyptian communities within the creative context of theatre, Safinat Nooh provides a forum for the audience to think about innovative solutions to these problems.

Safinat Nooh demonstrates the power of storytelling as a vehicle for social development, education, advocacy, and community mobilization.

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