Female DJs navigate Egypt's alternative music scene - in pictures

Meet the women who get the dancefloors rocking

Donia Shohdy, an Egyptian DJ known as A7ba-L-Jelly, performing in Cairo. All photos: Reuters

Shohdy is one of few women navigating Egypt’s alternative, underground DJ scene

Shohdy looks out from her apartment balcony in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo

The 31-year-old musician is among a handful of women DJs in the Egyptian music scene, although she prefers not to be labelled as such

She is founder of Jelly Zone, a team organising alternative music parties

Nour El Kady plays music at a concert in Cairo

A7ba-L-Jelly at home ...

... and at work behind the decks

The DJ with her cat

The dancefloor is rocking to a DJ's setlist

Showing off her mixing skills

Egyptian DJ Yas Meen Selectress plays tunes

Yas Meen Selectress in stage in Cairo

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