slums
The world’s cheapest light bulbs are … plastic bottles!
Environment
December 14, 2011
The world’s cheapest light bulbs are … plastic bottles!
In some of the world's poorest and most densely populated slums, buildings can be built so close to one another…
Cairo’s poorest residents help the less fortunate in Somalia
Egypt
August 24, 2011
Cairo’s poorest residents help the less fortunate in Somalia
Ezzbet Abu Qarn is a place that wealthy and upper middle-class Cairenes see as worthy of donations and campaigns, especially…
Govt disregards rights of informal settlement dwellers, report says
Egypt
August 24, 2011
Govt disregards rights of informal settlement dwellers, report says
The Egyptian government must do more to protect the rights of people living in informal settlements, human rights group Amnesty…
Building Egypt, but how?
Opinion
July 11, 2011
Building Egypt, but how?
In recent weeks there have been numerous reports of the government allocating millions of pounds for the development of slums.…
Government allocates LE192 bn to develop 37 slums
Business
June 21, 2011
Government allocates LE192 bn to develop 37 slums
The cabinet's Slum Development Fund has allocated LE192 billion to start developing 37 slums in 17 different governorates this month.…
Revolutionaries launch campaign to clean up slum areas
Environment
February 27, 2011
Revolutionaries launch campaign to clean up slum areas
A group of 25 January revolutionaries have mounted a campaign entitled “For the love of Egypt”, allocating two days weekly…
Study: 63,000 Greater Cairo housing units ‘unsafe’
Egypt
December 27, 2010
Study: 63,000 Greater Cairo housing units ‘unsafe’
There are 116 unsafe residential areas in Greater Cairo comprising a total surface area of 518 feddans, a new governmental…
Neoliberal Cairo: Whose city?
Opinion
July 25, 2010
Neoliberal Cairo: Whose city?
Behind the growing nostalgia for a once orderly and beautiful Cairo lies an alarming metamorphosis that is scarcely brought up…
My daughter’s dowry
February 22, 2010
My daughter’s dowry
When grownups
February 22, 2010