Cairo Communique: People's Assembly Passes Landmark Environmental Law
Napoli, James J., Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Cairo Communique: People's Assembly Passes Landmark Environmental Law
By James J. Napoli
Many Cairo residents last fall went through what seemed an endless succession of colds, flus, allergies and general physical funks. They blamed the air, which, even to people inured to the city's normally high level of pollution, had become particularly foul.
Some days, you couldn't see the Egyptian Museum across Tahrir Square, the city's center, because of the rich, yellowish mix of smoke from burning garbage, industrial emissions, auto and bus exhausts and plain old desert dust that sat on the city. It was too hot and the air didn't move. People got sick.
In its …
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Article title: Cairo Communique: People's Assembly Passes Landmark Environmental Law.
Contributors: Napoli, James J. - Author.
Magazine title: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Volume: XIII.
Issue: 3
Publication date: October 31, 1994.
Page number: 52.
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