WTFC: Nasr City, a Friday in 2001 | Aalia

This episode is a reconstruction of a memory as Aalia remembers it.

It imagines a Friday morning in her family’s apartment in Nasr City, Cairo, in 2001. The radio is on in the background, drifting from room to room while the day slowly begins. News, familiar songs, Qur’an recitation, voices, and everyday sounds blend into the atmosphere of home.

Rather than recreating a specific broadcast, this mix explores the feeling of those mornings—the comfort of routine, the intimacy of domestic life, and the way sound quietly becomes part of our earliest memories.

For Refuge Worldwide listeners, this episode is a short sonic invitation to Aalia’s childhood home, a chance to sit with those moments where music, place, and memory become inseparable.