What began with a box of childhood cassettes, the Egyptian Cassette Archive, founded by Amr Hamid, now preserves Egypt's rich musical and artistic heritage.

Since the first cassette tape was invented 60 years ago on Thursday, nowhere has its impact been more tangible than across the Middle East.

Curator Amr Hamid discusses how his rare archive of cassette covers traces the evolution of Egyptian design, and preserves it.

After interviewing Amr Hamid about the "Egyptian Cassette Archive," Nabila Abdel-Aziz presented the interview on Germany's national public radio.

This interview features Amr Hamid, the founder of the Egyptian Cassette Archive project, conducted in Arabic. It is part of the Radio Submarine podcast “Yara Mekawei” from the Blogs project 'Mudawanat,’ produced by the Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafi Foundation and the British Council. Over two episodes, Hamid discusses the archive from both visual and musical perspectives. We hope you enjoy listening.

For Egyptian visual artist Amr Hamid, the founder and curator of the Egyptian Cassette Archive — an extensive collection of cassette album covers — tapes signified an important piece of culture, the preservation of which became his obsession.