In the palazzo's former wine cellar, the Strozzina Contemporary Culture Center offers a parallel exhibition called "American Dreamers: Reality and Imagination in Contemporary American Art, " with fascinating visions of fantasy worlds conjured up by 11 American artists working hands-on, crafting their materials paint, canvas, paper, found objects, fabric, bones in a countercurrent to conceptual pretensions.

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If there is one theme in contemporary Egypt which unites Islamists, Liberals, Nasserites and Marxists, it is the collective fantasy of the common enemy in the shape of Israel and the Jews, which almost always correlates with the wish to destroy Israel.

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