A few years ago, I visited the Stasi Museum in Berlin. I had learned about the East German security apparatus from a film that depicted the extent of its social control during the 1980s. After 1989, the Stasi was duly dismantled and their (...)
Cars fly through a street called Al Mantiqa al Sinaaeya (Th Industrial Zone) as though the surrounding decay might catch up with them. For a length of about 150m, a continuous mound of demolition debris, blocks of broken stone and organic household (...)
We already know that the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has designated the Nile Delta one region of the world that stands to be most affected by possible rising sea-levels due to global climate change. Farmers and scientists both (...)
Muslim dynasties
About a century after Amr Ibn al-Aas's armies set up camp in al-Fustat and the Muslim religion was introduced into Egypt in 641CE, a series of environmental changes would affect the Delta.
Sea levels rose again, breaching the sand (...)
You're looking at the refugees of tomorrow. Presumed sea-level rise due to global climate change over the next nine decades, coupled with the accelerated erosion of the Nile Delta's coast as a result of 150 years of damming the Nile's flow, threaten (...)
In these days of rolling widespread blackouts that are sending small businesses to ruin and rendering streets unsafe, one wonders where all our 112 billion kilowatts/hour of power are going.
According to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (...)
Over the last decade, buzzwords such as "renewable", "sustainable" and "carbon footprint" seem to crop up in every other sentence--a result of increased public attention towards global climate change.
This new-found lexicon has infiltrated our own (...)
CAIRO: It is widely held that around 80 percent of buildings in Cairo have not involved an architect. Judging from the organic way it looks, I think that figure is not in doubt. We the architects are therefore a rare and endangered species, (...)