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Demonstration of Duweiqa residents in front of ministers council in Kasr el-Aini street in Cairo on 28 December 2009 protesting on lack of compensation after destroying their homes
Cairo official: Only deserving Duweiqa residents will get apartments
Al-Masry Al-Youm 01 Oct 2012
A governorate official said that residents of the informal Cairo neighborhood of Duweiqa will only be moved to 6th of...
Firefighters and bystanders attempt to extinguish the flames from burning cars in front of the Nile City Towers during clashes between the police and an unknown mob from a nearby neighbourhood, Cairo 2 Augus 2012.
Suspects deny role in Nile City towers violence
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Aug 2012
  Cairo prosecutors ordered Friday the detention of 17 suspects in the Nile City towers violence for four days...
Central Cairo's Boulaq slums lie in the shadow of a luxurious real estate development.
Land rights, labor and violence in a Cairo slum
Tom Dale
Abulkasim al-Jaberi
15 Jul 2012
The death of five-year-old Amar Mohammed Salah as fire tore through his shack in Boulaq, a central-Cairo slum on 27...
Urban planner David Sims explodes myths on Cairo’s dysfunction
John Harris 12 Jan 2012
What springs to mind when you think of Cairo? The gentility of Zamalek? The  bustle of downtown? The mercantile...
Crime on the rise, but are police to blame?
Mohamed Elmeshad 23 May 2011
Three days after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egypt’s much-hated police force was redeployed after...