Cairo Cemetery Bashny.Net

On his project Tamara Abdul Hadi says pridyhayuschey with tenderness. So much impressed with her story of several generations, who for 60 years to settle in the ruins of the ancient cemetery of Bab al-Nasr in Cairo.

This modern "necropolis" Now is equipped not only homes but also schools and even companies that can work adult residents of the area.











One of the residents rayonchik Mohammed Abdel Latif. Says so:

This cemetery alive.






These illegal settlements as the "City of the Dead," appeared in the vicinity of the 1980s (officially settled and more or less equipped). It was a real salvation for the poorest group of residents, who came to the last line. In these villages there is no electricity, running water, reigns unsanitary conditions, but people are hard to survive, and now is the cemetery, and five others like him take approximately a few miles, and live there for nearly 100,000 people, the density of population - 12 000 people per square kilometer.







Abdul Hadi, a native of Canada, a freelance journalist, a member of some media in Iraq is already widely known in the Middle East. It collects photo reports about oppressed people about life in ignorance of the cruel domination of patriarchy and other horrors that are happening in these areas. At the same time it tries to grow soft and peaceful moments of a new life in places without the involvement of the media, carefully and gently telling people that it is possible to live differently.