The government in Egypt has destroyed ancient tombs, gardens and a growing number of historic but shabby working-class neighborhoods, as developers in Cairo work to build concrete high-rises.
Families who have lived in the sprawling Egyptian capital for generations are being pushed to its fringes.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is fast modernizing the unruly city of 22 million people into a place of efficient uniformity — at a cost.
“There is not a single place in Egypt that has not been touched by the hand of development,” he said in a recent speech.
