Family of fishermen sits in a boat as one of the houseboats usually moored across one of the banks of the Nile river between the Zamalek district of Egypt's capital Cairo and the Imbaba district of its twin city of Giza is towed away by authorities on June 27 as part of a wider decree to clear all of the river's banks in the area. - Urban reprieve for some, life savings for others, around thirty Nile of the houseboats, known as "awamat" , are slated for demolition in Cairo, with residents claiming the state is sacrificing heritage for profit. A campaign to save the houseboats has been launched online, with a petition garnering more than 4,000 signatures. The vessels hold cultural weight even beyond the Nile, cemented in Arab cinema as the sight where Abdel Halim Hafez crooned in 1955's 'Ayam w Layali' and the setting for the titular chitchat in 1971's 'Tharthara fawq al-Neel' , based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning Naguib Mahfouz. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty
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