<ul class="summary-list"><li>Saied Hussain has been making cement <keyword id="41367" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="tiles">tiles</keyword> by hand for over 50 years in Cairo, <keyword id="6354912" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="egypt">Egypt</keyword>.</li><li>His business has withstood competition from marble and ceramic tile makers.</li><li>He says he's one of the last artisans in Egypt still making tiles this way - and he doesn't expect the industry to last much longer.</li></ul>

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Saied Hussain has been hand-making tiles out of cement for over 50 years. He says he's one of the last still doing this work in Egypt — most other workshops couldn't withstand competition from marble and ceramic tile makers. We went to Cairo to see how his business is still standing.

How one man in Egypt is keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile making alive

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Saied Hussain has been hand-making tiles out of cement for over 50 years. He says he's one of the last in Egypt still doing this work.

How one man in Egypt is keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile making alive

Dylan Barth,Amelia Kosciulek,Hossam Seliem ,Barbara Corbellini Duarte

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