April 2013
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The City of the Dead - Part two
By: Virginie Nguyen
View of the City of the Dead. The Sayeda Nafisa Mosque is visible in the background.
The streets of the City of the Dead are often silent and dusty, in contrast to Cairo’s usual noise, as no cars can enter the area’s narrow passageways.
Young boys playing cards in a courtyard of the City of the Dead.
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March 2013
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The City of the Dead - Part one
By: Virginie Nguyen
The City of the Dead, situated at Cairo’s Arafa necropolis, is a necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills. Stretching out for 6.4 km, the streets in the City of the Dead are quiet, narrow and often unpaved. There, one can find a dense grid of tomb and mausoleum structures, where some people live and work among the dead. Some reside here to be near...
February 2013
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Winter of Aleppo, a life under bombs
By: Virginie Nguyen
Aleppo December 2012 — Winter has started, it’s 4.30 pm and the darkness of the street appears among the drops of water and the little light coming from the cars. In the street, noises and screams can be heard from the bakeries. Under the rain, hundreds of people, mainly men and children, are lining up for bread. They have been waiting there for hours and will wait...
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January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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Ten days of rocks and tear gas
By: Virginie Nguyen
Fighting broke out on the night of 19 November in Cairo during a mass demonstration to commemorate last year’s clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Protesters were throwing rocks while police fired birdshot and tear gas at them. A field hospital was organized near Mohamed Mahmoud Street, then in Tahrir Square. Central Security Forces were on the...
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The International Anti-Corruption Conference,...
By: Virginie Nguyen
Last week, more than 1,900 people from 140 countries gathered in Brasilia, Brazil, to discuss one of the most important current issues: corruption in today’s world. The International Anti-Corruption Conference, or IACC, is held every two years in a different country. Organized by the IACC Council and Transparency International, in partnership with the national hosts, the IACC...
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The Hmongs of Sa Pa town, Vietnam
By: Virginie Nguyen
With its 88,000,000 inhabitants, Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies of Southeast Asia. As a result of the country’s 3,444 meters of coastline and various islands, tourism has affected the economic situation and lifestyle of Vietnamese since the end of the war. Among the tourist attractions that are highlighted in Lonely Planet and any other tourist guidebook is...
October 2012
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Lack of services and sanitation a toxic mix on...
By: Nadine Ibrahim
Photos by: Virginie Nguyen
Standing on the peak of one of Gezirat al-Warraq’s trash mountains, one can see beautiful Nile vignettes, the shores of Imbaba and Shubra, and small uninhabited islands that pop in and out of existence with the changing currents.
But, looking in, the island’s problems don’t end with the piles of trash occupying the Nile banks. Poor...
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September 2012
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WatchTok Tok launches its seventh issue
“Tok Tok,” Egypt’s first magazine dedicated to comic book art for grown-ups, recently launched its seventh issue at the Townhouse Gallery’s Factory Space. The theme of the issue was women, and subjects ranged from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape to desire and the consumerist lifestyle of a new type of middle-class...
Don’t forget to tune in every week for our new Unknown Cafe cartoon!
Aye aye, sir! By Tawfik.
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Getting acquainted with the clouds on Kilimanjaro
By: Heba Afify
Climbing the highest summit in Africa is all about the clouds. On the way to the summit at 5,985 meters high, climbers are either in or above the clouds most of the time, an unforgettable experience for someone who has spent most of their life looking up at the clouds.
The 7-day Machame route takes climbers through constantly changing scenery that, combined with the freshness of...
August 2012
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Photo Contest: Whirling with Rumi
As part of Egypt Independent’s celebrations of the holy month of Ramadan, we are inviting you take part in our first photo contest, “Whirling with Rumi.” Over the next three days, we will be publishing a quote or verse by the 13th century Sufi scholar, poet and mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi — one quote a day — and asking you to experiment with presenting or re-interpreting it with a single photograph...
July 2012
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“The Supermarket exhibition”, a look into...
A supermarket exhibition is nothing new. The idea of rising consumerist values has been repeatedly tackled by artists around the world. In Egypt, it is no different. Five upcoming artists raised the issue in relation to the local context in 2010 in an exciting exhibition titled “Shopping Malls” at the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF). And for the past two weeks, the Gezira Arts...
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June 2012
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