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This film is about the birth ritual in Egypt called Sebou' (the seventh), held on the 7th day following the birth of a child of either sex, and celebrated by Coptic and Muslim families, alike. Gender-linked imagery is reflected in the ceremonial clay pot and ancient cosmological symbolism is found in the numerical value "seven." The ceremony in this film celebrates the birth of twins, a boy and a girl, in a rising middle-class family in urban Egypt. Filming and editing techniques combine the analytic and the emic approaches, allowing the participants to speak for themselves without losing the anthropological analytic perspective.
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