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

30 August 2018

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

4 August 2018

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

18 June 2018

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

22 February 2018

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”

16 March 2017

Architecture firm unveils glossy vision for contested Maspero Triangle

Pesha Magid | "On the banks of the river Nile, the future of Maspero burns bright.”

10 November 2015

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

28 July 2015

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

20 September 2015