Massive #sandstorm hits #Cairo, deaths when a billboard lands on people. #wx #disaster #Egypt https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/2/502124/Egypt/Society/UPDATED-In-Photos--Strong-winds-and-sandstorms-wre.aspx

Buildings from another time in #Cairo #Egypt when #architecture was #art, mastery & #beauty.

#history #culture

What I miss about #ramadan in #egypt are these Tables of Mercy...

Set up on streets for the less fortunate, they're packed with #free donated #food for folks to break their #fast.

The last hour before #iftar an uncommon calm descends upon #Cairo 's atypically vacated, quiet streets.

Then after the city has been holding its breath, this sublime, meditative stillness is punctured by the joyful sounds of community eating & celebrating together <3

#memories #Islam #Muslim #faith #peace #love

From Google Maps, here are some examples of businesses and public spaces along the route that would be either bulldozed or suddenly have a 6 lane polluting highway right next to them. Mosques, schools, cafes, restaurants, shops, homes. #UrbanPlanning #Cairo

This is supposedly what they're building by 2030. The two construction photos are of the long light purple line that runs east-west. #Cairo #Egypt

#Cairo #subway expansion, via خاص عن مصر. Cairo is such a dense city that despite having a limited three-line system, it reportedly gets 3.6 million riders per day. An expanded subway is greatly needed! #Transit #urbanism

#Egypt is building a new administrative capital outside #Cairo, and they're doubling down on all the road mistakes of the past. Check out the roads in this rendering, and the construction photo. It's literally impossible to cross the street on foot. #urbanism

George Santos Faces Calls to Resign From Long Island GOP Leaders https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/nyregion/george-santos-nassau-resign.html #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #AppointmentsandExecutiveChanges #EthicsandOfficialMisconduct #HouseofRepresentatives #Santos,George(1988-) #NassauCounty(NY) #RepublicanParty #LongIsland(NY) #NewYorkState #Cairo,Joseph

#Cairo #Egypt is finishing up work on an interchange station connecting their new monorail to their expanded subway. Photos from خاص عن مصر on Facebook. #transit #trains #urbanism

RT @SorayaBahgat: We celebrated the third night of #Hanukkah at the stunning Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis. Honored to welcome our guests and present the “festival of lights”. We fight anti-semitism through exposure and education! #ShineTheLight #EgyptianJews #Egypt #Cairo

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/karmel80/status/1605569118609866752

For the festive season, here are some #camel pictures I made just outside #Cairo back in 2006

#photography

Cairo, Egypt launched a new bike share this year. Not sure if the rendering of bike lanes will actually be built, but good to see progress in a city that has very car-centric infrastructure. #BikeTooter #urbanism #Cairo Sources: itdp.org and خاص عن مصر

Family #WW2 curiosity. Falling apart #Egypt
"Learn Arabic without a teacher" booklet with phrases chosen for military men arriving in #Cairo on leave. Inevitably perhaps the first page (not shown) is dedicated to 'love' #histodon

Family #WW2 curiosity. Falling apart #Egypt
"Learn Arabic without a teacher" booklet with phrases chosen for military men arriving in #Cairo on leave. Inevitably perhaps the first page (not shown) is dedicated to 'love' #histodon

The greatest director for me: Hungarian Béla Tarr, whose films changed my idea of what cinema can be (should be?). "Werckmeister Harmonies" is a timeless classic, as is his 7-hour piece "Satatantango". The Cairo International Film Festival has just awared him the Lifetime Achievement Award ❤️

#film #cinema #movies #SlowCinema #Hungary #filmmaking #directing #CIFF #Cairo

Streetscapes of #Cairo #Egypt
A bustling city that has recently added a few pedestrian-oriented spaces.

For a #Cairo dweller, the thing about the Fayum mummy #portraits is that they're faces you see on the street every day. It's like your neighbours and fellow commuters are doing some kind of #Roman cosplay. Except these are 2 thousand year old encaustic on wood paintings attached to sarcophagi in Roman Egypt. And they're the most naturalistic paintings known to humanity before the #Renaissance.

For a #Cairo dweller, the thing about the Fayum mummy #portraits is that they're faces you see on the street every day. It's like your neighbours and fellow commuters are doing some kind of Roman cosplay. Except these are 2 thousand year old encaustic on wood paintings attached to sarcophagi in Roman Egypt. And they're the most naturalistic paintings known to humanity before the Renaissance.

For a #Cairo dweller, the thing about the Fayum mummy #portraits is that they're faces you're see on the street every day. It's like your neighbours and fellow commuters are doing some kind of Roman cosplay. And it's disorienting until it's heartwarming.

Keywords, well: #literature, #Egypt, #Islam, #Arabic, #desire (see link), #grief, #obscenity, #bilingualism, #power, #photography, #personhood, #psychoanalysis, #postcolonialism, #Cairo...

https://themarkaz.org/the-angels-of-desire/