| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Cairo, Urban, Egypt | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 2003 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Gilchrist, Scott | en_US |
| dc.date | 2003 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-12T14:52:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-12T14:52:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 206643 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 995 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/114520 | |
| dc.description | General view looking south over the City of the Dead; City of the Dead (Qarafa, Arafa) is a group of cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. It is a four mile long cemetery area located on the eastern side of Cairo. Traditionally, Egyptians buried their dead in room-like "burial sites" so they could live in them during the long mourning period of forty days. The poor have adapted the rooms to meet their needs and although this is technically illegal, it is tolerated. It is home to nearly a million people, many of whom were forced from crowded ghettos in Cairo. Others came from the villages simply looking for work - a good example of rural to urban migration in a developing country. To the people of Cairo, and other Egyptians, it is simply "the cemetery". It is a bustling grid of tombs and mausoleums where people live and work amongst their dead ancestors. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 1/18/2008) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | cityscapes | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | death or burial | en_US |
| dc.subject | domestic life | en_US |
| dc.subject | genre | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cemeteries | en_US |
| dc.subject | City planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Housing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.title | Cairo: City of the Dead; Topographic Views | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-EG-C-CD-A2 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Egyptian (modern) | en_US |
| vra.technique | photography | en_US |
| vra.worktype | photograph | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Scott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960) | en_US |
