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| Human Wall to Protect the Cairo Museum |
I am embarrassed to admit that Egypt and the middle east seem so other-world to me. I barely understand unemployment, disaster, hunger, hopelessness but from what I witnessed in small hands on doses when teaching for 32 years in public schools.
But how vivid it is to read and hear about the revolution in Egypt when a recent tweet offered up this article about 100 year old Manshiyat Naser aka Garbage City with accompanying pictures. I had to follow a link to verify the truthfulness. That these slums exist and that, I suggest, there is not a one of us who can even contemplate a life in such squalor is equally both embarrassing and horrendous. We need to look deep before we pass judgment on the current protests in the mid-east.
I wonder how long we, in America, would accept this state of affairs. These stories and images also force me to contemplate the issues we complain about.
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| Garbage City in Cairo |
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