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A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Jul 31, 2021

A general view shows a traffic jam in Cairo on Jan. 23, 2013. — A general view shows a traffic jam in Cairo on Jan. 23, 2013. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

Residents of Cairo's historic buildings make plea to prevent demolitions

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

CAIRO, EGYPT - DECEMBER 15: People walk through a street in the poor neighbourhood of the "City of the Dead" on December 14, 2016 in Cairo, Egypt. The "City of the Dead" houses more than half a million people living inside the graveyard. Since the 2011 Arab Spring, Egyptians have been facing a crisis, the uprising brought numerous political changes, but also economic turmoil, increased terror attacks and the unravelling of the once strong tourism sector. In recent weeks Egypt has again been hit by multiple

Destruction of historical tombs raises controversy in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Men carry out cleaning work at Al-Azhar Mosque, in the old Islamic area of Cairo May 8, 2014. As the Egyptian state presses its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the man expected to become president has deployed a new weapon in the battle with the Islamists: his own vision of Islam. Sisi, the former army chief who deposed the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi and is expected to be elected president later this month, has cast himself as a defender of religion and taken aim at the doctrinal foundations of Islami

Cairo's heritage sites threatened with demolition

Omar al-Naghy

Egyptian government floats new solution to traffic

Ahmed Gomaa