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Egypt: Losing Historical Cities

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Egypt, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Politics, Protest
Cairo..The city of a thousand pillars? Photograph from CairoObserver Facebook page. The red lines show buildings which obscure the minerates of mosques which is a signature of the Cairo horizon being lost to new development [1]

Cairo..The city of a thousand pillars? Photograph from CairoObserver Facebook page. The red lines show buildings which obscure the minerats of mosques which is a signature of the Cairo horizon being lost to new development

Cairobserver calls [1] [ar] people in Egypt through Facebook [2]and Twitter [3][ar] to demonstrate in front of governorate buildings, who are responsible for managing the city, across Egypt to call for an end to destroying and deforming historical cities.

The city of a thousand minarets is now the city of a thousand pillars! The historical city that was listed as a world heritage site [4] in the 70s is now facing demolition and changing all its characteristics and officials are dealing with it as if it is an out of control informal city
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Join us on Wednesday 19 June, 2013, at 5pm (Cairo local time) in Abdin sq. in front of Cairo governorate [5]