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Bulldozers tear into Cairo's historic Islamic cemeteries
  + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Hatem Maher | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/5] A view shows the City of the Dead, where tombs and historic cemeteries have been demolished due to a new construction project underway on the Salah Salem road, in the capital city of Cairo, Egypt, June 13, 2023. Known as the City of the Dead, the cemeteries along the eastern edge of Historic Cairo have been a resting place for Egypt's deceased since the arrival of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Some tomb owners who want to transfer the bodies of their family members say they are given little time beforehand. But only 102 sites among more than 2.5 million tombs in the area have received this designation, conservationists say. "I imagine that in five years' time, we won't find anything except maybe 20% of the current City of the Dead," Lafi said.
Persons: Salah, Hadeer Mahmoud, Sisi, Egypt's, Hisham Kassem, Abdel Fattah al, Ahmed Urabi, Hossam Abdel Azeem, Amr ibn, Moaaz, Lafi, Patrick Werr, Aidan Lewis, Emma Rumney Organizations: REUTERS, UNESCO, Thomson Locations: Salah Salem, Cairo, Egypt, CAIRO, Historic Cairo, el
"So far, we have recycled more than 5 million plastic bags, but this is just the beginning," TileGreen co-founder Khaled Raafat told Reuters. "We aim that by 2025, we will have recycled more than 5 billion plastic bags." At the company's factory, on the outskirts of Cairo, workers carry large barrels loaded with mixed plastic waste to be melted down and compressed. An Egyptian start-up, TileGreen, is manufacturing interlocking tiles from recycled plastic and waste in an effort to reduce dependency on cement, which is a major polluter in the country. Plastic waste is often discarded in the street or disposed of in informal dumps or burned.
The women DJing Egyptian underground music
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Donia Shohdy, an Egyptian DJ known as A7ba-L-Jelly, plays music during a concert in Egypt's capital Cairo, December 23, 2022. Founder of "Jelly Zone," a team organizing alternative music parties, the 31-year-old musician is among a handful of women...moreDonia Shohdy, an Egyptian DJ known as A7ba-L-Jelly, plays music during a concert in Egypt's capital Cairo, December 23, 2022. Founder of "Jelly Zone," a team organizing alternative music parties, the 31-year-old musician is among a handful of women DJs in the Egyptian music scene, although she does not prefer to be labeled as one. REUTERS/Hadeer MahmoudClose
Egypt's soaring prices drive home economic pain
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Mariam Rizk | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Over recent months accelerating inflation has pummelled the spending power of Egyptians, who had already endured repeated economic shocks and years of austerity. The government says it is doing what it can to tamp down prices and expand social spending, often blaming current pressures on external factors linked to the war in Ukraine. While many countries are struggling to contain rampant inflation, Egypt, with a population of 104 million, is among the hardest hit. Reuters GraphicsStill, more economic turmoil in the shorter term complicates Egypt's plans to try to turn things round after the political and economic turbulence that followed its 2011 Arab Spring uprising. The agreement also provides for increasing social spending to protect the vulnerable.
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