In Cairo, A Hit Satire Skewers Egypt’s Troubles For Laughs

“Q’ahwa Sada,” which has been running since November at a Cairo theatre, “is a series of 12 vignettes that satirize the ills of Egypt. The cast of 30 punctuates each episode by sipping on small cups of unsweetened coffee, the kind served at funerals throughout the Middle East. The corpse in question is Egypt: its politics, civility, economy, family cohesion, architecture and even Arabic language all in decay.”