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Attaba
9 min read
Will the Attaba fire pave the way for a central Cairo facelift?
Heba Farouk Mahfouz
| As survivors of a major fire in downtown Cairo last week take toll of the dramatic few days they lived
American University in Cairo
16 min read
The changing face of downtown
Passant Rabie
| Am Adel sits outside the large red building that occupies the corners of Adly, Emad Eddin and Abdel Khalek
American University in Cairo
13 min read
Downtown as laboratory: Q&A on Cairo’s Creative Cities conference
Passant Rabie
| Both government and private sector plans for historical downtown Cairo came to a pause with
downtown Cairo
7 min read
Pressure builds as downtown Cairo street vendors relocated, once again
Mohamed Hamama
| In the early hours of Sunday, police and military personnel began clearing street vendors from downtown
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Zizi
But the woods are almost empty
On the co-option of queerness in Berlin, ecological doom and other things
Mia Jankowicz
A lick of paint
You probably noticed that Qasr al-Nil Bridge has been repainted in green and lavish gold. Just
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downtown Cairo
3 min read
Police forces close downtown Cairo cafes
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