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A dense residential district north of central Cairo, built around long local shopping streets.
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Residents
76,942
Covers قسم شبرا in Cairo governorate, a CAPMAS mid-2017 estimate of Egyptians only, not a final census count; Shubra El-Kheima is a separate, much larger unit in Qalyubia governorate and is not included.
Source: CAPMAS 2017 population estimate (PDF) ·
Worth reading
Work published elsewhere, picked one at a time, with the reason it is here.
A feature on the Shubra Archive, an oral-history project Mena Ibrahim runs out of his own home.
Mada Masrmadamasr.com
The governorate's own history of Shubra, from its origins as an island in the Nile.
Cairo Governoratecairo.gov.eg
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