The Pharaoh’s Curse
Egypt’s authoritarian president has recreated Cairo in his image, bulldozing ancient tombs, working-class neighborhoods, and the city’s already scarce green space.
Over the past decade, longtime residents of Cairo have started getting lost in their own city. Taxi drivers and Google Maps can’t keep up with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s urban renewal campaign, which has empowered the military to raze historic neighborhoods and throw up new roads at a breakneck pace. A city of 23 million […]
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