I was planning to go the prayer in the first day of "Eid El Adha" with Karim. We got really lost and finally when we arrived we found that it was over. The prayer was in a very big hall in a place near the stadium.
We were really upset that we missed it as we wanted to pray and to shoot the prayer as well. It's not very often that we spend the feast outside Egypt. I myself thought it was a great idea to make a documentary video about the feast in Marseille and how people spend it. It would have been really interesting for the people here to see an aspect of their city they might not know and also for the people in Egypt.
I could only shoot with two ladies; one from Algeria and one from Tunisia. They were really friendly and when they knew I was from Egypt they decided to greet the muslims in Egypt for the feast.
The 2 ladies I shot with in a great hall where the prayer took place
Since we missed the prayer we thought we could shoot the sacrifice. We were told to go to a place called "Marche Puces" in a very far place in Marseille. We had to take to metro to go to a place called "Bouganville" and then to have bus number 70. We spent a long time trying to understand this :) and when finally we took the bus we realized that we took it in the opposite direction :) so we had to go all the way back to take the right bus. Everybody was telling us about Mostafa Silmani and we had know what was that until we reached the place and found the big sign with the name to realize that it was only a butcher :)
Mostafa Silmani in marche Puces
It was very cold that day and the district itself was very poor. Everybody was warning us not to walk with the cameras. In Mostafa Silmani there were so many poor people lining up waiting for the free meat. It's a part of the feast to give third of your meat to the poor or even more. We felt it was not that safe to shoot with them because if one of them got angry the rest might hurt us or take the cameras. Also there wasn't any special thing going on but people waiting unlike Egypt for example.
People waiting for the free meat in Mostafa Silmani
After the very long extremely cold day we ended up with nothing and we went back home very disappointed.
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