Images of Coptic Cairo

 The tour buses have already started to arrive outside the walls of Coptic Cairo. Coptic Cairo is a walled city with police presence outside, armed and there are also armored bomb squad vehicles parked outside. We arrived by taxi on our own, no bus tours for us.

This guy whom we visited lives in their family burial lot. There's a room above the ground where the coffins were buried and he lives with his father in squalor. He asked us to come into his hovel and we sat and chatted with him. I gave him some money when we left. If the regular Egyptians are bad off, what about the Coptic Christians. They are the 'Zabaleen', the trash pickers of Cairo. Their fate is so poignant. They will be worse off if Mubarak goes.