Zahraa Adel Awad tells me: 'Today all the Egyptian newspapers are talking about the Villa Ambron and Lawrence Durrell'.
Zahraa and her friends and fellow activists (see previous post) have long campaigned to save the Villa Ambron, the place where Lawrence Durrell began writing The Alexandria Quartet, with the aim of turning it into a museum or cultural centre dedicated to Alexandria's recent cosmopolitan period. But today their photographs appear throughout the Egyptian press to record its destruction.
Corruption and ugliness have ruined a once beautiful world class city.
Here are some thumb shots with links.
مسلسل اغتيال الفيلات التراثية بالإسكندرية مازال مستمر بهدم فيلا أمبرون
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فيلا إمبرون التاريخية تودع الإسكندرية.. ورئيس الحي : هُدمت بحكم قضائي | صور
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هدم فيلا «أمبرون» التراثية يثير ذعر أهالى الإسكندرية
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