مصر · Egypt
أهلاً. هذه قصتنا.
The law names our language, and orders the news to sign it. Since 2018.
Access on this page: Signed: Egyptian Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
For forty-three years Egypt's Deaf citizens lived under a 1975 rehabilitation law that did not name their language. Law No. 10 of 2018, issued on 20 February 2018, does: Article 19 recognises Egyptian Sign Language as a language of instruction for Deaf students and a medium of access to public services; the law obliges state broadcasters to interpret major news bulletins and official addresses in sign language, and courts and police to provide interpreters for Deaf parties. It stands on Article 81 of the 2014 Constitution, and Law 11 of 2019 created a National Council to enforce it. State television signs its daily bulletins. And Egypt makes most of the Arab world's films and series — almost none of them accessible. The law is ours. The bulletin is delivered. The screen the whole region watches is what we build.
Egyptian Sign Language video — this story, in our language
A named Egyptian Deaf creator tells this page's story in Egyptian Sign Language. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
The most-watched screens in the Arab world are made here.
Now we make them ours — in our language.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Films, series, news, and services — in Egyptian Sign Language, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will make the Arab world's film capital sign its own films — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Egypt today
The law now says:
Egyptian Sign Language is a language of instruction for Deaf students and a medium of access to public services — Article 19, Law No. 10 of 2018. State broadcasters must interpret major news bulletins and official addresses in sign language; courts and police must provide interpreters for Deaf parties. The Ministry of Social Solidarity keeps a register of certified interpreters, and since 2019 a National Council for Persons with Disabilities exists to enforce the law.
And we know the exhausting part: the duty stops at the state broadcaster and the major bulletin. The films and series Egypt sends to every Arab living room carry no such duty, and the interpreter register is short.
The bulletin signs. The cinema comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Egyptian Sign Language, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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