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: Organizers Forum
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 …
Egyptian Presidential Candidates Offer Surprising Perspectives
Cairo In an amazing development I had to split the Organizers’ Forum delegation into two tracks, one political and the other labor, to accommodate the packed schedule of high level meetings. On the political side the confluence of Ahmed Rehab’s experience in Tahrir Square and contacts he made there and the novelty of an …