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Cairo

Cairo

Spring 1997

Spring 1997

Middle East Report 202 takes a kaleidoscopic look at life for the majority in the most populous Arab capital.

Table of Contents

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From the Editors (Spring 1997)
Articles

Cairo's Poor
Articles

Facts and Figures on Cairo
Articles

Urban Planning and Growth in Cairo
Articles

An Expensive Toy
Articles

Giza Spaces
Articles

Pollution, Popular Perceptions and Grassroots Environmental Activism
Articles

Relocation and the Use of Urban Space in Cairo
Articles

Who's to Blame?
Articles

Environmental Conditions in Cairo
Articles

Community Participation and Environmental Change
Articles

Sheikha in al-Warraq
Articles

Street Vendors
Special Reports

Political Islam Under Attack in Sudan
Special Reports

The Taliban, the Shari'a and the Pipeline
Special Reports

Ten Years of the Los Angeles Eight Deportation Case
Special Reports

"Is This Case for Real?"
Special Reports

Documenting Land Ownership in the Palestinian Authority
Reviews

Youssef Chahine's "Cairo"
Reviews

Making It on the Middle Eastern Margins of the Global Capitalist Economy
Reviews

Editor's Picks (Spring 1997)