The number of inhabitants has reached 380,000. The first is to absorb between 20,000 and 30,000 inhabitants and 70 percent of the infrastructure is already in place. Those who have already moved to El-Taref are not very pleased either. The houses are very small and there is no place for our livestock. Well it wasn't our fault to start with.
People see themselves as caught in the grip of a monkey wrench.
And then there are the terrorists. The annual staging of Verdi's Aida will be shifted back from Luxor to the Giza Pyramids. The Hatsheput Temple opposite Luxor will not host Verdi's Aida this year. It will move back from old Thebes to the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza where the major part of the opera is set. Its high time that Aida took off again back to the Pyramids where Verdi imagined it taking place.