The City of the Dead is a cemetery in Cairo. Once it was outside the city, but with the urbanization starting in the seventies, it now is surrounded by roads and neighborhoods. A labyrint of graves and catacombs, not only for the dead, but also for the people who live there.
The Giza Zoo is a zoological garden in Giza, Egypt. It is one of the few green areas in the city, and includes Giza's largest park. In front of most cages a worker will sell food to the visitors to feed the animal.
Story about Mahraganat Shaabi. Everybody was calling him a 'bad' boy and he was trying to impress us by doing wheelies up and down the street in the slum area of Maddi.
Mahraganat Shaabi or Electro Shaabi is electronic party music played at weddings and parties in the slums of the big cities in Egypt. Based on traditional rhythms but with modern computer generated beats and rap. The singers rap about their lives in the slum.
A beach dog walks in the water of the Gulf of Aqaba, between Sinai, Egypt and Saudi Arabia during sunrise. The mountains in the distance are from Saudi Arabia.
Shadi Abu Zeid, the satirical video blogger who is detained for 8 months, was briefly out of prison to attend his fathers funeral. Heavily guarded by police he could accept condolences from friends and relatives.
During a peaceful demonstration in downtown Cairo, the day before the 4th anniversary of the 2011 revolution, police attack with teargas and shotguns. Shaima al Sabbagh, a 25 year old woman from Alexandria, gets shot at close range and dies.
khamaseen is a dry, hot, sandy local wind, blowing from the south, in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. From the Arabic word for "fifty", these dry, sand-filled windstorms often blow sporadically over fifty days, hence the name.
The neighborhood of Nazlet El Semman, most of the people work as guide for the tourists on horses. On the edge of Cairo, at the entrance to the pyramids of Giza. People of this neighborhood attacked the protesters in Tahrir Square in 2012 during the revolution against president Mubarak. The economy depression since has hit them hard.
The Zabbaleen are a minority religious community of Coptic Christians who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors for approximately the past 70 to 80 years. Zabbaleen means "Garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic. View from a rooftop, the tower is for pigeons.
Family members of Moessa Lazmy, in the background the wife of his brother, the brother got killed by the army during protests. On the foreground the wife and kid of his other brother.
