This series of work explored the territory of “the city of the dead”. 

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Civilization describes a complex way of life characterized by urban areas, shared methods of communication, administrative infrastructure, and division of labor. A political boundary is an imaginary line separating one political unit, such as a country or state, from another. Sometimes these align with a natural geographic feature like a river to form a border or barrier between nations. Occasionally, two countries may contest where a particular border is drawn. These disputes might arise due to a natural resource both groups.Amid a housing crisis in Egypt, and with the population of the capital estimated at 20 million, thousands of people count themselves lucky to call Cairo Necropolis home.For some in the neighborhood of cemeteries, the final resting place to hundreds of thousands of people over centuries, the graves themselves provide a livelihood: with people taking care of tombs, digging new graves, or selling flowers to visitors paying their respects on Fridays.

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Community leaders emphasized four main failings (no warning, no consultation, no compensation and no provision for resettlement) however as contributing to the lack of any attempt to develop solutions which minimize the scale of the evictions and the disruption caused to those who have to move.

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 The trauma of evictions where cemetery people are forced from their homes in the tombs, in which they have lived for decades and in which they have often invested a considerable proportion of their income over the years - their possessions, as no warning is given before the bulldozers destroy their settlement, and the often complex reciprocal relationships which provided a safety net of protection against income decline or the loss of a job.

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They often lose one or more sources of livelihood as they are forced to move away from the area where they had jobs or sources of income . Where provision is made for resettlement, this is almost always at a distant site where the people are expected to build, once again, their homes but on land with little or no provision for Infrastructure and services. Those evicted rarely receive any financial support for rebuilding. The land site on which they are relocated is also very often of poor quality