1) Read: Helen Watson’s Intro Chapter / Women In The City Of The Dead (1992) “The initial focus of my research was women’s contribution to the family budget and their experience of waged work.” (see your email for pdf)
2) Watch: Cairo’s City of the Dead https://vimeo.com/34631588 (2012)
Cairo’s ‘city of the dead’ is home to four million people, roughly the population of the city of Sydney, Australia. The City of the Dead is a vast ‘suburb’ of Egypt’s capital, where residents live amongst the tombs and gravestones of generations past.
3) Watch: REPORT: 1001 Inventions engages children at Egypt’s historical ‘City of the Dead’ (2020 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW3d07JJ1cg&t=68s
In December 2020, children at Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ were introduced to the wonders of science with a series of engaging sessions organized by 1001 Inventions in collaboration with ARCHiNOS Architecture and the support of Al Alfi Foundation.
4) Read: A Morbid Lifeline: Cairo’s City of the Dead (2021) https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/09/13/a-morbid-lifeline-cairos-city-of-the-dead/
Egyptian Streets is an independent grass roots news media organization aimed at providing readers with an alternate depiction of events that occur on Egyptian and Middle Eastern streets, and to establish an engaging social platform for readers to discover and discuss the various issues that impact the region.
Briefly summarize these four readings/ videos, AND THEN respond to these focus questions with examples from the coursework:
From what you have learned, have living conditions / the quality of life in The City of the Dead changed, improved or evolved over the past 30 years?
Explain why or why not. (give concrete examples)