Cairo’s vanishing gems and green spaces

A residence in Cairo, where a growing number of old working-class neighbourhoods are slated for redevelopment last year. People whose families have lived there for generations are being pushed out to make way for developers. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

ANCIENT tombs have been shattered. Gardens have vanished, and with them many of Cairo’s trees.

A growing number of historic but shabby working-class neighbourhoods have all but disappeared, too, handed over to developers to build concrete high-rises while families who have lived there for generations are pushed to the fringes of the sprawling Egyptian capital.