Poverty haunts Egypt in Cairo’s City of the Dead
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CAIRO — In a sprawling cemetery on the edge of Cairo, where thousands of Egyptians inhabit the tombs of bygone nobles in a City of the Dead, the promise of a revolution is haunted by the specter of poverty.
The centuries-old maze of mausoleums is a long way from Tahrir Square and the Internet activists whose revolt chased Hosni Mubarak from power and united the country behind a vision of a resurrected Egypt, proud and free.
“I didn’t go to Tahrir,” said Nasser al-Said, 27, who makes a couple of dollars a day by selling tea from a rickety wooden table by the roadside.
“I have to support my mother, my wife and my daughter. How are they supposed to eat if I go off and demonstrate?”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110218com7.html
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