Nariman El-Mofty

Photojournalist

Cairo's demolitions campaign

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Location: Cairo

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The massive road construction ...ded cities, in the Giza, 2021.

The massive road construction projects have demolished residential buildings, family owned cemeteries part of the historic City of the Dead, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and erased some of the oldest remaining green spaces. A bridge under construction part of mega projects that include building new luxurious cities and residences, roads, bridges and tunnels as the government tries to ease traffic on congested roads in one of the world's most crowded cities, in the Giza, 2021.

A billboard promoting a new re...ing compound in Cairo in 2018.

A billboard promoting a new residential housing compound in Cairo in 2018.

Maspero Television Building on ...oto/Nariman El-Mofty) Cairo EGY

Maspero Television Building on the banks of the Nile river in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The new capital is a $45 billion city being built on on 170,000 acres about 28 miles (about 45 kilometers) east of Cairo and nearly twice its size. The New Administrative Capital is biggest of the mega-projects Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi launched since taking office in 2014. It is planned to house 6.5 million people. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Cairo EGY

The view from a bedroom window... compound in Ezbet Khairallah.

The view from a bedroom window in slum area includes a billboard advertising a pricey gated suburban compound in Ezbet Khairallah.

An advertisement for a residen...d in Ezbet Khairallah in 2017.

An advertisement for a residential housing compound in Ezbet Khairallah in 2017.

Billboards promoting a new res...eighborhood, on the ring road.

Billboards promoting a new residential housing compound overlook a crowded run-down neighborhood, on the ring road.

A Coptic church and the minare...residential building in Cairo.

A Coptic church and the minaret of mosque on top of a residential building in Cairo.

Residential buildings in Cairo, Egypt.

Apartments demolished as part of a mega projects campaign.

Bulldozers cleared the way for... World Heritage Site in Cairo.

Bulldozers cleared the way for construction of a multilane freeway through the Northern Cemetery, part of the historic City of the Dead, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cairo.

A bulldozer knocks down walls ...ic Northern Cemetery in Cairo.

A bulldozer knocks down walls and tombs amid work to clear way for a new highway running through the historic Northern Cemetery in Cairo.

A tomb stands exposed after it...World Heritage site, in Cairo.

A tomb stands exposed after its walls were knocked down as part of construction of a new highway through the Northern Cemetery, part of the City of the Dead, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Cairo.