Cairo Sorting out the experience as I pack to leave Cairo, I find my thoughts something of a jumble. The trip was amazing for all of us. One of the Organizers’ Forum delegation pointed out to me for example how amazing it was to him that in the evaluation no one mentioned the Pyramids or …
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Cairo 2050 Plan and Egyptian Revolution Postponed
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 …
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 …