Women in the City of the Dead, by Helen Watson, is a collection of life stories and creative stories told by the very poor women who live in the City of the Dead, a giant graveyard over four centuries old just outside Cairo. Initially it was inhabited only by gravediggers and groundskeepers and their families, but as more and more rural people
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Yes. I wonder if my Bhuz-derided cheap red bedleh was made there? It might have been. When I took the bra apart I kind of had visions of some small brown unmanicured hands making it, a woman, not a child, in a light place. I know that sounds weird.
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