Cairo Archives - Berfrois

Cairo

‘There were always more books than the small shelves could contain’

‘There were always more books than the small shelves could contain’

Cairo in Indigo

Photo essay:

Cairo in Indigo

‘Cairo’ by Yahia Lababidi

Poem:

Yahia Lababidi

‘Cairo’ by Yahia Lababidi

The New Egyptian Novel

‘This is Egypt. People have been smoking here since the pharaohs. This isn’t going to stop them.’

‘Cairo risks becoming a city where no one belongs – a place where the lower classes are blamed for their own disenfranchisement, and from which the upper classes are eager to secede’