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		<title>Manifestazione NO Mubarak a Milano</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Si è svolta oggi, per le vie di Milano una manifestazione a sostegno dei manifestanti in piazza al Cairo contro..]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Si è svolta oggi, per le vie di Milano una manifestazione a sostegno dei manifestanti in piazza al Cairo contro il regime di Mubarak.</p>
<p>Amedeo Novelli c&#8217;è stato e ce lo racconta con le sue immagini:</p>
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<p>A new protest, in Milan, in support of those egyptians in the streets of Cairo. S4C&#8217;s Amedeo Novelli was there and here are his images:</p>
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		<title>News dal Cairo: from the middle of everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Una buona amica egiziana, H, con la quale siamo riusciti a tornare in contatto ha chiesto di far sapere quello..]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Una buona amica egiziana, H, con la quale siamo riusciti a tornare in contatto ha chiesto di far sapere quello che sta succedendo. E come GLI EGIZIANI stanno vivendo questo momento e cosa stanno davvero vedendo. Non sempre quello che ci propina l&#8217;informazione mainstream è mediato da una reale verifica dei fatti e delle fonti. Quello che possiamo fare noi è semplicemente dare voce a chi ce lo chiede. A chi non ha la possibilità di far conoscere la propria versione dei fatti.</p>
<p>AA</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">(an email of H., who lives in Cairo and who is witnessing what is really happening in the streets. She asked to heard. And this is what S4C does: we give voice to those who cannot access mainstream information, not always reliable nowadays)</span></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Now internet is back and I can answer you.</em></p>
<p><em>I&#8217;m fine and my family as well. Thanks for your care.</em></p>
<p><em>I have to say that things are not as shown by non egyptian channels. The egyptians who went out on Tuesday 25 to protest and ask for rights already went home since friday after the president&#8217;s speech and his promise to answer all the requests. </em></p>
<p><em>Whoever was still protesting till Monday, asking the president to retire, left and went home after his second speech promising not to run in the next elections after 6 months, and that he wants to hand over Egypt in peace not in internal war. He already changed the bad ministers and governors and he announced that he ordered to change the articles asked for in the constitution.</em></p>
<p><em>Whoever is in the square is not egyptian, may be some brainwashed and who received promises to have money and fame from some islamic brotherhood terrorists and some foreign figures. Actually, it was discovered that many of the people in square are from Iran, Switzerland, Palestine, Ireland and Israel. I can&#8217;t say that what is happening now is protesting, because it can only be called terrorism. </em></p>
<p><em>Some Egyptian who lives in America and has the american nationality came back to egypt on friday to ask the president to retire only because he wants to run for president and to rule. He continues to pour oil on fire and encourage some young people between 16 and 20 years old to stay with him promising to get them the visa and some money!!!!</em></p>
<p><em>The army forces don&#8217;t want to interfere because these young people are egyptians who have been brainwashed and it&#8217;s a waste to take an action risking their lives, and that&#8217;s why the terrorists are making use of the situation and continuing the violence acts throwing Molotov bombs in the square at people passing, at the army and the policemen. </em></p>
<p><em>They also opened the prisons by force and sent out all types of criminals arrested with a quantity between 30 and 40 thousands. they gave them civil clothes, weapons and they threatened who didn&#8217;t want to escape that they&#8217;d kill them. </em></p>
<p><em>they are now scaring people in their houses, they robed all the shops and now entering homes killing and raping then taking every good they can use, of course threatening with their weapons. </em></p>
<p><em>The men and young men in all quarters already divided themselves in groups and are making shifts of control and security in every single spot, taking the police mens&#8217; role, who disappeared for a couple of days, and checking everyone who tries to pass. The check them for any type of weapon that can be used to threaten people and ask for their ID. Whenever they suspect someone, they call the army forces who are everywhere and deliver the suspected to them. All over the country, terrorists with weapons pass in motorcycles, ambulances, and police cars wearing fake police clothes and shot at whoever come in their way.</em></p>
<p><em>I hope things go back to normal before the country is totally destructed. you have no idea how it looks like! Everything is burned and ruined! shops are broken and stolen, some governmental building are burned and also houses!</em></p>
<p><em>That what I know from the middle of everything, at the end I&#8217;m not very far form down town.</em></p>
<p><em>Just don&#8217;t listen to Al jazeera and other non egyptian channel, they keep giving wrong information and a totally wrong picture of what&#8217;s really going on. Millions of people went out yesterday supporting the president&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>H.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>H parla un buon italiano ed ha anche scritto una mail nella nostra lingua per tutti gli amici italiani:</strong></span></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;Ciao antonio, sto bene&#8230; anche se sto molto vicino al centro</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">in piazza sono pochi egiziani, ma la maggior parte sono stranieri iraniani, palestinesi, svizzeri, israeliani e di irlanda mischiati con alcuni dei fratelli musulmani che tutti hanno distrutto la piazza, sparano a tutti e da ieri buttano anche molotov in tutte le direzioni.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">L&#8217;esercito non vuole usare la violenza perche&#8217; qualche egiziano ancora c&#8217;e&#8217; e non vogliono perdergli</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">i ragazzi che hanno iniziato le proteste martedi 25 sono tornati a casa gia&#8217; da venerdi dopo lo speach del presidente in cui ha deciso di cambiare i ministri e correggere tutto, e ha accettato le loro richieste e l&#8217;altro ieri ha detto in pubblico che non ha l&#8217;intenzione di presentarsi per le prossime elezioni, e che stara&#8217; solo per i prossimi mesi per lasciare il governo al nuovo governo in pace, non in guerra</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">L&#8217;altro problemi di cui soffriamo tutti in egitto e&#8217; che 30000-40000 prigioni sono scappati da tutti i prigioni dopo che hanno rubato le pistole, vestiti, e macchine di polizia, ambulanze e motori e hanno rubato tutti i negozi, grandi e piccoli, ora entrano case per rubare, uccidere e violentare le donne. girano e sparano a tutti senza motivo&#8230; infatti stiamo tutti dentro case, e i maschi fanno turni di guardi davanti case, per strade e fanno il lavoro della polizia che sono spariti per qualche giorno. Controllano qualsiasi persona che passi, e chiedono il documento di riconoscimento e controllano se hanno qualche pistola o qualsiasi altro che potrebbe essere usato per ferire.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Quando trovano qualcuno in cui sospettano, chiamano l&#8217;esercito che e&#8217; sparso in tutto il paese.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Certo, problemi di alimentari ci sono visto che i negozi sono stati rubati, o hanno semplicemente chiuso per stare a proteggere le case e le zone dove abitano. che c&#8217;e&#8217; a casa si usa, e se  manca qualcosa e&#8217; difficile trovarla.. e i prezzi quindi sono raddopiati.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Vorrei dirlo a tutto il mondo almeno capiscono che succede davvero, non come dice al jazeera e altri canali che mettono l&#8217;olio sul fuoco.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Spero tutto finisca presto,</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">H.&#8221;</span></em></p>
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<div id="attachment_3870" style="width: 727px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cairo-15661.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3870 " title="cairo-1566" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cairo-15661-1024x685.jpg" alt="" width="717" height="479" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(foto di archivio - AA)</p></div>
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		<title>Cairo: i militari sono con la gente</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claudia Rocchini, membro di S4C, è riuscita a contattare (in un momento in cui le linee parevano ripristinate) Hoda, la..]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.claudiarocchini.it" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Claudia Rocchini</span></a>, membro di S4C, è riuscita a contattare (in un momento in cui le linee parevano ripristinate) Hoda, la guida turistica che l&#8217;accompagnò alla scoperta del Cairo tempo fa.</p>
<p>Sono momenti tesi e decisivi per la democrazia in Egitto.<br />
Ed Hoda ha riferito che i militari si stanno schierando con la gente in rivolta.</p>
<p>Addirittura scrivendo scritte in tal senso sulle fiancate dei carri armati. Non abbiamo ancora foto, perche&#8217; inviarle via Internet è difficile ma ve le mostreremo al piu&#8217; presto.</p>
<p>Intanto leggete la conversazione tra Claudia ed Hoda sul sito di Claudia (<span style="color: #000080;"><a href="http://www.claudiarocchini.it/blog/cairo-i-militari-sono-con-la-gente/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">CLICCATE QUI</span></a></span><span style="color: #0000ff;">)</span>.</p>
<p>AA</p>
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		<title>Those Who Live among the Dead (La Città dei Morti)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ENGLISH BELOW] Dopo poco meno di un anno, sono tornato alla Città dei Morti al Cairo. Stiamo preparando un workshop..]]></description>
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<p>Dopo poco meno di un anno, sono tornato alla Città dei Morti al Cairo. Stiamo preparando un workshop fotografico lì, in collaborazione con la ong <a href="http://www.liveinslums.org" target="_blank">Live in Slums</a> per sensibilizzare su questo incredibile fenomeno urbanistico e sociologico.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhZT2tz00Y"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2836" title="Cairo The City of the Dead" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BWamendola_Cairo0341-1024x841.jpg" alt="" width="574" height="471" /></a></p>
<p>La Città dei Morti è il cimitero monumentale del Cairo ed è attualmente abitato da circa 800.000 persone che hanno occupato le cappelle funerarie adibite alla sepoltura dei defunti, rendendole loro abitazioni permanenti.</p>
<p>Pur essendo classificato al diciannovesimo posto nella lista degli slums più grandi del mondo (di cui ben quattro sono al Cairo), si svincola dalle caratteristiche più tipiche degli altri per il particolare fenomeno di co-abitazione fra vivi e morti, oltre che per la grande valenza storico-architettonica del luogo che lo rendono un caso unico al mondo. Le bidonville sono totalmente assenti, i nuclei abitativi non sono sovraffollati e il cimitero ha un impianto ordinato e riconoscibile.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhZT2tz00Y"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2840" title="Cairo The City of the Dead" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BWamendola_Cairo0275-184x300.jpg" alt="" width="184" height="300" /></a>L’aridità del clima e il terreno privo di umidità hanno reso questi luoghi salubri a differenza degli altri luoghi cimiteriali. Tuttavia “vivere in una tomba” rappresenta una condizione di assurdità e tabù per il resto della città cairota, che vede il cimitero come l’estremo e degradato margine della città. Molte aree sono state irrimediabilmente compromesse da sgombri e demolizioni, lasciando campo a nuove e redditizie speculazioni edilizie.<strong> Il luogo è stato stigmatizzato dalle autorità come posto pericoloso e con un alto livello di criminalità, per questo inaccessibile ai turisti e spesso anche agli studiosi.</strong></p>
<p>Già nel XIV secolo esistevano abitazioni-tomba usate dai più bisognosi per ripararsi. Con l’esplosione demografica e il fallimento delle politiche di edilizia popolare, una moltitudine impressionante di poveri urbani e masse rurali, ha occupato abusivamente le camere mortuarie e le piccole stanze costruite originariamente per ospitare i pellegrini e i guardiani dei mausolei.</p>
<p>Essendo già la seconda volta alla Città dei Morti, ero preparato. Ho riconosciuto alcuni volti (e sono stato riconosciuto da alcuni di loro), ho passeggiato tranquillamente per le stradine e mi sono intrufolato in alcune vecchie moschee. Il tutto respirando un&#8217;aria di assoluta tranquillità.</p>
<p>Certo, è un posto poverissimo. Ma a differenza di altri slums, sono stati in grado di ricreare un loro tessuto sociale e, per così dire, economico, alternativo.</p>
<p>Resta l&#8217;immaginario collettivo di essere umani che vivono &#8220;tra i morti&#8221;. E&#8217; così che gli abitanti del Cairo li considerano. Ed è quello che rende ancora più affascinante il luogo. La continuità tra vita e morte, la sovrapposizione dei piani. La coesistenza di bambini che giocano tra le lapidi, spesso usate come stendipanni.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhZT2tz00Y"><img class="size-large wp-image-2841 aligncenter" title="Cairo The City of the Dead" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BWamendola_Cairo0385-630x1024.jpg" alt="" width="441" height="717" /></a></p>
<p>Ritornerò presto lì. E spero davvero di riuscire a realizzare un workshop fotografico che consenta di rendere un&#8217;immagine diversa della Città dei Morti, supportando, allo stesso tempo, il lavoro dei fantastici ragazzi di <a href="http://www.liveinslums.org" target="_blank">Live in Slums</a>.</p>
<p>Antonio Amendola</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800000;">THOSE WHO LIVE AMONG THE DEAD (story, photo, music: Antonio Amendola)</span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">I lately went for the second time to the City of the Dead in Cairo (Egypt). I went there to continue arranging for a future photo workshop to be held down there next spring with the support of the italian NGO </span><a href="http://www.liveinslums.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">Live in Slums</span></a><span style="color: #800000;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">The City of the Dead is the monumental cemetery of  Cairo currently inhabited by almost 800,000 people who have occupied the funery chappels were the dead are burried, making them their permanent homes. Although ranking 18th position in the list of the  largest slums in the world  ( of wich as many as four  are in Cairo).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhZT2tz00Y"><span style="color: #800000;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2843" title="Cairo The City of the Dead" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BWamendola_Cairo0207-1024x805.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="483" /></span></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">It differs from other tipical slums for the peculair phenomenon of habitat sharing between the living and the dead, along with the  historical and architectural value of the area wich make of the  slum a unique case in the whole world.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Bidonvilles are totaly absent, dwelling centres are not overcrowded and the cemetery has a tidy and recognizable structure.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">The dry climate and the lack of moist in ground have made these places healthy unlike other burring grounds.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">On the other hand &#8220;living in a tomb” is a case of absurdity and a taboo for the rest of Cairo&#8217;s city wich considers the cemetery as the extreme and degrade margin of the city.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Many areas have been irrevocably compromised by evictions and demolitions leaving space for more lucrative housing speculations.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhZT2tz00Y"><span style="color: #800000;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2844" title="BWamendola_Cairo0266" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BWamendola_Cairo0266-300x235.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="132" /></span></a><span style="color: #800000;">The place has been stigmatized by authorities as a dangerous place  with a high crimerate and for this reason it is inaccessible for turists and often also for researchers.<br />
Ever since the XIV century tomb-houses have existed and sheltered the most needful.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">After the high increase in population and the failure in politics of  estate housing an icredible mass of poor people from the city and country illegaly occupied the mortuary chambers and the small rooms originally built to host pillgrims and the masuoleums guards.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Being the second visit there, I could recognise some of those faces. And I&#8217;ve been recognised by a few of them.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">What is amazing there, is the overlapping of concept such as life and death, old and new. People live among the tombs and kids play on them. But always with a total respect for those buried underground. In 90% of the cases, the buried ones do not belong to the family living &#8220;upstairs&#8221;. But they care about them like they were their beloved departed ones.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">What a place.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We&#8217;ll go back there very soon. Join us?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Antonio Amendola</span></p>
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		<title>Cairo: back at the city of the dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m in Cairo for a couple of days. And I went back to the city of the dead yesterday evening (and I&#8217;ll go back today).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the former ancient monumental cemetery of Cairo where, year after year, hundreds of thousand people squatted and found permanent lodging.<br />
Among the tombs&#8230;.</p>
<p>Tell you more soon<br />
Antonio</p>
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		<title>LIFE AMONG THE DEAD/ La Città dei Morti al Cairo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 09:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">During one my latest visits to Cairo, Egypt, I had the chance to see how much life there could be among the Dead ones&#8230;</p>
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<div id="attachment_1651" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/antonioamendola/cityofdead/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1651" title="s4c city of dead015" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/s4c-city-of-dead015-300x232.jpg" alt="(click to see the complete gallery)" width="300" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the complete gallery)</p></div>
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">I stumbled into the City of Dead thanks to a fantastic italian NGO called <a href="http://www.liveinslums.org/english/progetti.php" target="_blank">Live in Slums</a> who operates in difficult slums around the World and that made me discover this amazing place, giving me a lot of food for thought and opening to a window of opportunities and future joint activities.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1652" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/antonioamendola/cityofdead/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1652" title="s4c city of dead026" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/s4c-city-of-dead026-300x232.jpg" alt="(click to see the complete gallery)" width="300" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the complete gallery)</p></div>
<p>City of the Dead is the monumental cemetery of  Cairo currently inhabited by almost 800,000 people who have occupied the funery chappels were the dead are burried, making them their permanent homes. Although ranking 18th position in the list of the  largest slums in the world  ( of wich as many as four  are in Cairo)</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">It differs from other tipical slums for the peculair phenomenon of habitat sharing between the living and the dead, along with the  historical and architectural value of the area wich make of the  slum a unique case in the whole world.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Bidonvilles are totaly absent, dwelling centres are not overcrowded and the cemetery has a tidy and recognizable structure.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">The dry climate and the lack of moist in ground have made these places healthy unlike other burring grounds.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">On the other hand &#8220;living in a tomb” is a case of absurdity and a taboo for the rest of Cairo&#8217;s city wich considers the cemetery as the extreme and degrade margin of the city.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Many areas have been irrevocably compromised by evictions and demolitions leaving space for more lucrative housing speculations.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">The place has been stigmatized by authorities as a dangerous place  with a high crimerate and for this reason it is inaccessible for turists and often also for researchers.<br style="text-indent: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />Ever since the XIV century tomb-houses have existed and sheltered the most needful.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1653" style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/antonioamendola/cityofdead/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1653" title="s4c city of dead023" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/s4c-city-of-dead023.jpg" alt="(click to see the complete gallery)" width="1000" height="776" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the complete gallery)</p></div>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">After the high increase in population and the failure in politics of  estate housing an icredible mass of poor people from the city and country illegaly occupied the mortuary chambers and the small rooms originally built to host pillgrims and the masuoleums guards.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">LIVE IN SLUMS is active in drafting and implementing support activities within the City of Dead and Shoot 4 Change will make its part in supporting future joint activities that are currently being agreed.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Our approach to social photography is very pragmatic and we won&#8217;t go back there only to &#8220;take photos&#8221; or to &#8220;tell a story&#8221;. We&#8217;ll try to figure out practical form of intervention and aid.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&amp;formkey=dHZvZWIyYVh4X2pHcEhoc29XRDdZa1E6MQ" target="_blank">Want to Join Us?</a></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Antonio Amendola</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">PS We&#8217;ll probably start by holding a Social Photography Workshop in the City of Dead next fall/winter (not before, because it would be too hot&#8230;.). Give us a hint on your likely interest so it would be easier to organise it&#8230;</p>
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<div id="attachment_1654" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/antonioamendola/cityofdead/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1654" title="s4c city of dead011" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/s4c-city-of-dead011-300x232.jpg" alt="(click to see the complete gallery)" width="300" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the complete gallery)</p></div>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Durante una delle mie ultime visite al Cairo, ho avuto la fortuna di incontrare e conoscere una fantastica ONG italiana, <a href="http://www.liveinslums.org" target="_blank">LIVE IN SLUMS</a> che opera in alcuni tra i più problematici slums del mondo. Come la città dei morti al Cairo, in questo caso.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Città dei Morti è il cimitero monumentale del Cairo, è attualmente abitato da circa 800.000 persone che hanno occupato le cappelle funerarie adibite alla sepoltura dei defunti, rendendole loro abitazioni permanenti.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pur essendo classificato al diciannovesimo posto nella lista degli slums più grandi del mondo (di cui ben quattro sono al Cairo), si svincola dalle caratteristiche più tipiche degli altri per il particolare fenomeno di co-abitazione fra vivi e morti, oltre che per la grande valenza storico-architettonica del luogo che lo rendono un caso unico al mondo. Le bidonville sono totalmente assenti, i nuclei abitativi non sono sovraffollati e il cimitero ha un impianto ordinato e riconoscibile.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1655" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/antonioamendola/cityofdead/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1655" title="s4c city of dead002" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/s4c-city-of-dead002-300x232.jpg" alt="(click to see the complete gallery)" width="300" height="232" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the complete gallery)</p></div>
<p>L’aridità del clima e il terreno privo di umidità hanno reso questi luoghi salubri a differenza degli altri luoghi cimiteriali. Tuttavia “vivere in una tomba” rappresenta una condizione di assurdità e tabù per il resto della città cairota, che vede il cimitero come l’estremo e degradato margine della città. Molte aree sono state irrimediabilmente compromesse da sgombri e demolizioni, lasciando campo a nuove e redditizie speculazioni edilizie. Il luogo è stato stigmatizzato dalle autorità come posto pericoloso e con un alto livello di criminalità, per questo inaccessibile ai turisti e spesso anche agli studiosi.</p>
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<p>Già nel XIV secolo esistevano abitazioni-tomba usate dai più bisognosi per ripararsi. Con l’esplosione demografica e il fallimento delle politiche di edilizia popolare, una moltitudine impressionante di poveri urbani e masse rurali, ha occupato abusivamente le camere mortuarie e le piccole stanze costruite originariamente per ospitare i pellegrini e i guardiani dei mausolei.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shoot 4 Change elaborerà delle proposte pratiche e delle iniziative da svolgere in collaborazione con i volontari di Live in Slums per attuare ancora una volta un approccio estremamente pratico alla &#8220;fotografia sociale&#8221; che non sia semplicemente l&#8217;andare a &#8220;fare foto&#8221; o a raccontare una storia di forte impatto.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">La fotografia può, e deve (a nostro avviso), avere un ruolo propositivo ma anche realizzativo di iniziative pratiche a favore di un cambiamento sociale.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Allora, che ne dite? <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&amp;formkey=dHZvZWIyYVh4X2pHcEhoc29XRDdZa1E6MQ" target="_blank">Vi unite a noi?</a></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Stiamo pensando di realizzare un workshop molto pratico nella ( e per la ) Città dei Morti nei prossimi mesi (ma non prima dell&#8217;autunno/inverno). Scriveteci per dirci se siete eventualmente interessati, cosi&#8217; sara&#8217; più facile organizzare e pianificare il programma.</p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Antonio Amendola</p>
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