The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Pig fever

pigs.jpgA list of links on Egypt's ridiculous war on swine. There is a very interesting aspect to this story, highlighted below in in the second-to-last link and in the Egyptian Chronicles post, that this is being grabbed by the government as an opportunity to clean up the urban pig farms around Cairo (used by the zabaleen), such as the one you smell on the 26th July corridor as you exit Mohandiseen. It is fair enough to want to clear these insalubrious areas, but with what compensation for those who will lose their livelihoods? And who will get the extremely valuable land?