Cairo
The Secret Lives of Cairo’s Strays
After visiting Cairo’s animal shelters, Mostafa Abdel Aty decided to spread awareness about the city’s strays to improve their situation. His Meow Tours now take people through the streets to meet and feed their animal inhabitants, bringing people and neighborhoods together.
Bulldozing Cairo’s Cemeteries
The insistence on demolishing old cemeteries seems strange, as they are some of the most beautiful Islamic burial grounds in the world. Despite the numerous roads and axes penetrating them from all directions, committees have doubted the utility of these roads, and those constructed have seen little traffic.
Transforming Post-Revolution Cairo
Over the last decade, public squares across Cairo have been made inaccessible or demolished to make way for construction projects. There are no places for broad-leaved trees that could hinder surveillance nor shaded spaces that foster assembly. That is not an accident.
Cairo’s Correspondents
Among the Egyptian exiles who left the country after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power, dozens are journalists and media professionals who were dispersed around the world as Egyptian authorities tightened their control over privately owned media.
The Hidden Face of Nawal El Saadawi
The Egyptian writer was marginalized and misunderstood at home and abroad. In Egypt, she was labeled anti-religion and secular. But in the West, too, she was put in boxes: Arab, feminist, revolutionary. She was more than all those things: a universal writer who transcended boundaries and wrote of the human condition.