Cairo The weekend in Cairo is Friday and Saturday. On the Friday day of prayers organizers had called a rally to reignite the spirit of Tahrir Square, predicting a vast assemblage of people with some promising that a million would be in the square. The call had been to speed up the process and …
Category: International
Lively Controversies in the City of the Dead
Cairo Not far from central Cairo is a walled cemetery centuries old and filled with mausoleums, often speaking of the riches of the dead in the same way that the pyramids spoke of rulers hundreds of years before them. The area encompasses hundreds of acres and Costanza La Mantia, who was walking us through the …
Recyclers of Cairo
Cairo The Coptic (Christian) recyclers or zabaleen in the flat, former farmlands and floodplains of Cairo, built on the Nile, are on a small rise, some call a mountain, Mokattam. This is not an area where cabs travel, nor was it easy to get a bus, especially on Friday, the Muslim prayer day. In …