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City of the Dead - Whither Salvation?
Ahmad, a man in his 80s who cannot move, lies in front of a crypt in the tomb that shelters him. He dreams of going to France for an operation to help him walk. But living with the remains of Dr. Labib el Sa-Id may be the closest he ever gets to a…
City of the Dead - Out of Darkness
One of the 11 children of Fatma Amin, who can't afford to pay rent. 'All I'm asking from God,' she says, 'is to live to see my children grow up and be better than us.'
City of the Dead - Deadly Troubles
Faheema, a poor resident of Cairo whose home is a tomb, worries about how to feed and care for her large family.
City of the Dead - Into the Light
As morning breaks, children emerge from their dark quarters. Without adequate sanitary facilities, health conditions are poor, despite the best efforts of the cemetery's residents.
City of the Dead - Cycle of Poverty and Overpopulation
The refrigerator is empty and does not work, but the television, run on pirated electricity, beams an Olympic wrestling event. The 40-yesr-old woman who occupies this tomb has 11 children -- 'one very two years.'
City of the Dead - Cradle of Death
Eight-month-old Magsy, her mother and three others share this two-chamber tomb in Cairo's City of the Dead with six kittens. Lacking electricity and running water, the inhabitants exhibit little cheer and almost no hope.
City of the Dead - No Sense of Shelter
Tombstones become headboards for beds, monuments become kitchen tables, and massive shrines to the dead become shelters to enshrine the living poor in Cairo's city of the dead.
City of the Dead - A hole in the World
The area in the fore ground -- not just the pit -- serves as the toilet in Cairo's City of the Dead. In this desecrated landscape, tombs of the remembered dead are homes for the forgotten living.
Atomic Legacy -Child in Trouble
Snezhana Krot, 9, at 'Children in Trouble,' a Minsk-based network of 1,300 cancer-affected families.