Items related to slums

slums of Ain El Sira in Cairo, one of the areas, which residents suffer from pollution and lack of services, 2008
Port Said signs multi-million pound agreement to develop slums
Al-Masry Al-Youm 17 Jan 2013
Agreements for an LE107 million slum development project in Port Said Governorate were signed on Thursday. The...
Ramlet Bulaq slum dwellers 'break out'
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 02 Oct 2012
It was already past noon on Sunday, and Magdy, the general coordinator of the popular committee, is still running...
Narrow streets are also filled with heavy-loaded racks, with the price drawn on a piece of white cardboard.
Wave of arrests, threat of eviction plague Ramlet Bulaq
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 27 Aug 2012
The shack-dwellers of Ramlet Bulaq have been hit by a wave of night-raids and arbitrary, violent arrests, say residents...
  In “Premeditated,” Ghada Abdel Razek stars as a shrewd yet corrupt lawyer
What's in an image: Class drama in Ramadan
Noha El-Hennawy 16 Aug 2012
For decades, the highpoint of Ramadan’s drama had been a serial about an idealistic middle class character who...
Central Cairo's Boulaq slums lie in the shadow of a luxurious real estate development.
Firsthand account: Inside Ramlet Bulaq on the day of the clashes
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 05 Aug 2012
Amr Fathi is but the most recent fatality in Ramlet Bulaq, where slum dwellers have been struggling to keep their land...
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...
Egyptian actor demands housing rights in new constitution
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Feb 2012
Actor Mohamed Sobhi, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, warned on Tuesday against the risks of informal...
Slums of Ein El Sira, Cairo.
Government allocates LE175 million for development of slums
Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 02 Jan 2012
Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri allocated a budget of LE175 million for the development of slum areas throughout Egypt...
The world's cheapest light bulbs are … plastic bottles!
Louise Sarant 14 Dec 2011
In some of the world's poorest and most densely populated slums, buildings can be built so close to one another...