informal neighborhoods
Cairo official: Only deserving Duweiqa residents will get apartments
Egypt
October 1, 2012
Cairo official: Only deserving Duweiqa residents will get apartments
A governorate official said that residents of the informal Cairo neighborhood of Duweiqa will only be moved to 6th of…
Suspects deny role in Nile City towers violence
Egypt
August 4, 2012
Suspects deny role in Nile City towers violence
Cairo prosecutors ordered Friday the detention of 17 suspects in the Nile City towers violence for four days pending…
Land rights, labor and violence in a Cairo slum
Egypt
July 15, 2012
Land rights, labor and violence in a Cairo slum
The death of five-year-old Amar Mohammed Salah as fire tore through his shack in Boulaq, a central-Cairo slum on 27…
Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction
Environment
January 12, 2012
Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction
What springs to mind when you think of Cairo? The gentility of Zamalek? The bustle of downtown? The mercantile rush…
Crime on the rise, but are police to blame?
Egypt
May 23, 2011
Crime on the rise, but are police to blame?
Three days after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egypt’s much-hated police force was redeployed after nearly three weeks of complete…