Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is trying to turn Cairo into a modern city, like Dubai. He's also building a whole new city in the middle of the desert near Cairo to house his government as ...

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Cairo’s City of the Dead, a vast cemetery that has been in use for more than a millennium, is being destroyed to clear space for new highways. Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and ...