My grand mother in her balacony checking her stuff in her daily life routine, Her name is Fatma
Mohamed. she married my grandfather when she was 14 years old. In 1952, she moved from
Edfu, Aswan to Bulaq in Cairo where she spent all of her life. Cairo,Egypt 30/9/2020

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If They Move Me ... I Die

Mohamed Hozyen | Egypt

“If They Move Me… I Die” is a personal narrative that traces the final days of my grandmother in her lifelong neighborhood, the Maspero Triangle downtown by the river nile of Cairo Egypt  an area now undergoing forced transformation through gentrification.

Having been raised in this very neighborhood, I tell the story through my grandmother’s eyes, a lens shaped by memory, resilience, and quiet resistance. Her experience becomes a vessel through which I explore the broader displacement of communities affected by rapid urban development. This work reflects on how these changes fracture our sense of belonging, distort memory, and erode inherited identity.

While parts of Cairo rise ever higher, casting shadows of progress, that same progress imposes the erasure of deeply rooted neighborhoods. This project is both a tribute and a protest, a reflection on what we lose when the city forgets its people.

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