By: Brownie

I live in Ain Shames in Eastern Cairo, it is not a fancy rich place. The governmental clerks or artisans are the inhibitors of it. In Ain Shames I was used to see crowds gathered to buy the subsidized bread, or gathered to ride the public transportation in the early morning to go to work, and many other form of situations that show the daily struggle of the people in Ain Shames.

Back in the eighties and nineties, many sectarian clashes took place in Ain Shames, the most famous and most dangerous was the Adam street Church, it was fight over a piece of land as the reason of the majority of sectarian clashes. Recently the racial dynamics is taking a new trend, the clashes are not between Muslims and Christians anymore, the new comers are the subjects of the racial sentiments here.

Generally we can say that lower middle class is the large sector of the inhabitants of Ain Shames, but others sought peace and decided to live here too, those are the Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers, where they can afford living next to the Egyptians.

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