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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...
Burnt cars in front of Nile City Towers during clashes between the police and an unknown mob from a nearby neighbourhood in Cairo, 2  August 2012.
A class-based vacuum
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 03 Aug 2012
Ever since the revolution forced the police from the streets, the country has been plagued by a security vacuum and, as...
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.
18 suspects arrested in Nile City violence, says Interior Ministry
Egypt Independent 03 Aug 2012
The Interior Ministry issued a statement late Thursday saying that 18 suspects in the Nile City towers violence, near...
Smoke rises from near the Nile City Towers on 2 August as clashes erupt.
Update: Gunfire, tear gas continue in Boulaq
Abulkasim al-Jaberi 02 Aug 2012
Violence continues in the Boulaq area this evening after clashes erupted outside the Nile City towers on Thursday...
Staying hydrated is important during the summer
Residents close Giza Governorate headquarters to protest water shortage
Al-Masry Al-Youm 21 Jul 2012
Dozens of Saft al-Laban, Boulaq, residents closed the Giza Governorate headquarters Saturday with metal chains, saying...
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...
Central Cairo's Boulaq slums lie in the shadow of a luxurious real estate development.
Cairo's central slum under threat
Tom Dale
Abulkasim al-Jaberi
05 Jul 2012
The contrast is stark. On the Nile waterfront, gleaming skyscrapers shoot into the sky, containing a mall stuffed with...
'Boulaq' and 'Downtown': Two neighborhood portraits
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim 27 Mar 2012
Artwork produced in Cairo, regardless of who is making it — visiting artist or lifelong resident — tends...
Amid rubble, rescue workers searching for survivors of a collapsed building in Boulaq Abu Elaa, Cairo, March 16, 2010.
Bulaq building collapses, families survive
Ahmed AbdEllatif 17 Mar 2010
A five-story building of 15 apartments collapsed yesterday in Bulaq. The 13 families living in the building were all...
bulaq 2
04 Mar 2010
Abdou is talking from his window, too scared to leave his house that is threatened by destruction