Cairo masterplan threatens ancient City of the Dead
In the early morning haze, women dressed in black and men with grim expressions gather in Cairo's centuries-old Sayyida Nafisa cemetery./ But they are not here to bury their relatives. They are here to exhume them./ "This is a double trauma," says Iman, sobbing as she directs proceedings./ "First my mother - my mentor - passed away last year. Now I am digging up her fresh body and my grandparents' remains, putting them in sacks, and driving away to rebury them in new graves in the desert."/ Iman's story is not unusual. In the past two ...
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