They Murder Trees in Egypt  · Global Voices
Eman AbdElRahman

Michael Hanna, an Egyptian blogger and pharmacist, continued his series of mourning the murder of trees, as well as demolishing antique villas in Heliopolis suburb in Cairo, and wrote an ode to a palm tree [ar].
Three months ago, he took a photograph of what is perhaps the oldest palm tree in the region. He blogs:
An old palm tree on Al Ahram Street, in Heliopolis suburb
Hanna continues:
A hole, where people throw trash, where a palm tree once stood