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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
16 May 2016
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
29 October 2015
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
28 October 2015
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
27 April 2015
 
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Zizi
But the woods are almost empty
On the co-option of queerness in Berlin, ecological doom and other things
27 August 2018
Mia Jankowicz
A lick of paint
You probably noticed that Qasr al-Nil Bridge has been repainted in green and lavish gold. Just
4 November 2013
 
 
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downtown Cairo • 4 min read
Police forces close downtown Cairo cafes
3 November 2014
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