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Maspero Triangle
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Maspero Triangle
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Video | Exiting the Triangle
Asmaa Gaafar
| A resident of one of the last buildings adjacent to the Maspero Triangle refuses to leave his home
Maspero Triangle
17 min read
Interview: On developing the Maspero Triangle and the future of the Asmarat housing project
Mostafa Mohie
| Mada sits down with Khaled Siddiq, the executive director of the Informal Settlements Development Fu
Asmarat
21 min read
Asmarat: The state’s model housing for former ‘slum’ residents
Mostafa Mohie
| The housing project doesn't feel like home to residents relocated from self-built housing areas
forced relocation
1 min read
Video | In the last days of ‘The Triangle’
Mostafa Mohie
| Families in the Maspero Triangle have one week to vacate ahead of the upcoming development project
urban development
16 min read
Development ‘alternatives’ raise fear of forced relocation from Maspero Triangle
Mostafa Mohie and Waad Ahmed
| Maspero Triangle residents fear state plans to develop the area will force them to “self-relocate”
architecture
5 min read
Architecture firm unveils glossy vision for contested Maspero Triangle
Pesha Magid
| "On the banks of the river Nile, the future of Maspero burns bright.”
forced evictions
10 min read
The Maspero Triangle: Necessary demolition or forced eviction?
Mostafa Mohie
| Residents of the Maspero Triangle could not imagine the impact the attack on the Italian Consulate on
Opinion
Kareem Ibrahim
Urbanization, informal areas and the new Cabinet
Since the mid-1990s, the Egyptian government has adopted neoliberal economic policies, reflected in real
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downtown Cairo
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