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Cairo, El Abagiya deadcity. Sixty-year old Faouzi Mohamet lives for free with his 6 kids between the tombs. He works as a guardian and burier, holding the keys of 50 tombs, and gets paid 300 Egyptian pounds per month. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC02		 Egypt:Cairo, El Abagija deadcity. 26 y. old Hamis Aouis lives with his wife and their 2-year old daughter, Amal, above a family tomb. Hamis is a tomb burier and guardian. He receives a government salary of 400 Egyptian pounds per month but his electricity bill alone is 25 Eg. pounds per month. Their home is just a room, where they also got married. Actually, it was their fathers matchmaking... © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC03		 Egypt, Cairo:Life in the Dead City The young Hamanda has become a distinguished sculptor by making tomb sculptures and decorative marble headstones. © Maro Kouri
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Egypt:Cairo,Life in El Abagija deadcity. 26 y. old Hamis Aouis lives with his wife and their 2-year old daughter, Amal, above a family tomb. Hamis is a tomb burier and guardian. He receives a government salary of 400 Egyptian pounds per month but his electricity bill alone is 25 Eg. pounds per month. Their home is just a room, where they also got married. Actually, it was their fathers matchmaking... © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC06		 Egypt. Life in Dead City never ends... A man repairs his car outside his tomb-house in Medina Meyet, that means ‘deadcity‘. Mini-buses, taxis, and gharries carried by horses provide the main transportation in a city that expands for six km in the south - east region of medieval Cairo. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC07		 Cairo:Life in the dead city Since the pharaonic tradition, family graves had a visitor‘s room providing overnight accommodation. Nowadays, this room hosts the living habitants of the cemetery for a coffee, nargile or tea break while listening to traditional music. © Maro Kouri
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Cairo:Life in the deadcity Thousands of poor and homless women & children, live in El Abagija cemetery. The municipality has installed water, gas, electricity, local police station, school, post office, even telephone and satellite plates in some tomb-houses. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC09		 Cairo:Life in the deacity Nargile-coffee shops next to a body shop that repairs hearses. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC10		 Egypt, Cairo:In Medina Meyet (that means dead city) life never ends... A young lady passes over Hamanda‘s sculpture atelier. Hamanda has become a distinguished sculptor by making tomb sculptures and decorative marble headstones. © Maro Kouri
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Cairo:Life in the dead city The central market of Abageya dead city © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC12		 Cairo: Life in the Dead city. Children seems to play taws with the dead in Medina Meyed, the central cemetery of Cairo where except the dead, rest some thousands of alive people. Families with many children, homeless, watchmen, as well as immigrants coexist with the sleeping souls and their bones... Some of the grave inhabitants are guardians of their tomb-houses, buriers, housekeepers of the tombs, while others want to live and die near their ancestors. The oldest grave constructions of the most alive cemetery in the world were built by the Mamluks, circa 1250-1517. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC13		 Cairo:Life in the dead city.Sharia El Afifi avenue. Old mosques, nargile and coffee shops, and the tap water for the families who live just above the dead. Mini-buses, taxis, and gharries carried by horses provide the main transportation in a city that expands for six km in the south - east region of medieval Cairo. © Maro Kouri
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Egypt. Life in Dead City never ends... A man repairs his car outside his tomb-house in Medina Meyet, that means ‘deadcity‘. Mini-buses, taxis, and gharries carried by horses provide the main transportation in a city that expands for six km in the south - east region of medieval Cairo. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC15		 Egypt. Life in Cairo‘s central cemeteries never stops. Outside pub Luazir, where men smoke nargile and, in the quiet, they drink beer, little boys play football and an old woman that waits to sleep for ever near to her ancestors, makes a phone call to her kids that probably have escaped from the dead city‘s destitution. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC16		 Egypt, Cairo:Life in the Dead City. The municipality has installed water, gas, electricity, local police station, school, post office, even telephone and satellite plates in some tomb-neighbourhoods. But, still dead city is hidden from tourist‘ eye as poverty hearts... © Maro Kouri
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Cairo:Life in the deadcity. Souhir Ali Ibrahim was born in this house; she raised her children with her husband besides their family tomb, where she wants to be buried when she dies. A house with all comforts including a telephone line is common in El Yafir dead city. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC18		 Egypt, Cairo. Life in Dead City never ends... A man repairs his car outside his tomb-house in Medina Meyet, that means deadcity & expands for six km in the south - east region of medieval Cairo. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC19		 Cairo:Life in the dead city Magd has a sculpture atelier inside a family tomb. He makes arabesques for Seyida Nafisal cemetery customers, but the last years his customers are all over Egypt. Underneath his work surface is barried a couple of a doctor and a mechanical engineer. © Maro Kouri
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Cairo:Life in the dead city Sharia El Afifi avenue. Old mosques, nargile and coffee shops and the tap water for the families who live just above the dead. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC21		 Cairo:Life in the dead city Sair plays with his son Gioulio at the top of Citadel cemetery, where they left some flowers to his dead father. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC22		 Egypt, Cairo:Life in the Dead City. Twenty-three year old Amer shares a clean tomb-house with three women, in Seyida Nafisal cemetery with basic comforts an electric oven and a refrigerator. She speaks English fluently and works as a security guard at a famous mufti grave. © Maro Kouri
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Egypt, Cairo:Life in Dead City In the center of Segida Nafisa cemetery life never ends.... Seventeen year old Samar says: ‘‘I live just above a couple of scientists‘‘, and she runs to her trackman fiance © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC24		 Cairo: Life in the dead city Old & young generations, homeless, immigrants, debtors and unemployed, co-exist with the dead in chaotic cemeteries. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC25		 Egypt, Cairo:Life in the Dead City. El Abagija deadcity. 26 y. old Hamis Aouis lives with his wife and their 2-year old daughter, Amal, above a family tomb. Hamis is a tomb burier and guardian. He receives a government salary of 400 Egyptian pounds per month but his electricity bill alone is 25 Eg. pounds per month. Their home is just a room, where they also got married. Actually, it was their fathers matchmaking... © Maro Kouri
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Cairo:Life in the dead city. Magd has a sculpture atelier inside a family tomb. He makes arabesques for Seyida Nafisal cemetery customers, but the last years his customers are all over Egypt. Underneath his work surface is barried a couple of a doctor and a mechanical engineer. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC27		 Medina Meyed is the central cemetery of Cairo where except the dead rest some thousands of alive people. Families with many children, homeless, watchmen, as well as immigrants coexist with the sleeping souls and their bones... Some of the grave inhabitants are guardians of their tomb-houses, buriers, housekeepers of the tombs, while others want to live and die near their ancestors. Earthquake victims expatriated from Sadad‘s and Mubaraq‘s governments, debtors and unemployed make up the majority of Medina Meyet dwellers. The oldest grave constructions of the most alive cemetery in the world were built by the Mamluks, circa 1250-1517. © Maro Kouri
MKEG_DC28		 Egypt, Cairo:Life in the Dead City. Twenty-three year old Amer shares a clean tomb-house with three women, in Seyida Nafisal cemetery with basic comforts like electric oven and a refrigerator. She speaks English fluently and works as a security guard at a famous mufti grave. © Maro Kouri
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