he did so seven cars, one man, three women, two children and a police officer walked by and nobody batted an eyelash. I was mainly enraged; however, because I'm pretty damn sure if I went to his house in Giza/Shoubra/Heliopolis/Imbaba/Boulaq, took a shit in front of his door and placed my household garbage on top of it afterwards, he -- and his neighbours -- would be rather displeased and have me running for the hills. Cairo's streets -- the scarce green areas, public buildings and through-ways - they belong to everyone.  You see that green area over there, the one in front of the Central Train Station? That's public space. Al Azhar Park and Tahrir Square? Public space. The alleyways of Khan el Khalili, the land the pyramids were built on and each cubic meter of the Nile are all part of Cairo's public space, which means it should be maintained and cared for as if it were your own living room, terrace or backyard. Same goes for the 6th of October underpass, the park where your children play and the goddamned street in front of my house. Between a foreign embassy and a school. Call me crazy, but this is kind of disgusting. Indeed there are plenty of things that need to be addressed in the new Egypt, there's no doubt about that. Whether it's the flailing economy, unemployment, the youth bulge, stabilizing the price of natural resources, food scarcity, education, reforming the justice and law enforcement sectors or