Audio Doc: "Egypt's Trains: On Track to Disaster"

Chugging along faulty infrastructure, and driven by corruption, Egypt’s railway system is on track to disaster, with 550 train accidents every year. Horrific deaths, public outrage, and politicians’ promises always follow. But the trains never change course—and it’s the poor who end up paying for a one-way ticket to death. (11mins, 15secs)

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Egypt's Trains: On Track to Disaster

Chugging along faulty infrastructure, and driven by corruption, Egypt's railway system is on track to disaster, with 550 train accidents every year. Horrific deaths, public outrage, and politicians promises always follow. But the trains never change course. And it's the poor who end up paying for a one-way ticket to death. Attend the Listening Session at AUC's New Cairo campus on Wednesday, May 15 and Sunday, May 19 at 10 a.m. each day in the BEC building, room 1060. Share this link to the promo with your friends!

The Politics of Egypt's Trains, with Pascale Ghazaleh

Pascale Ghazaleh is an assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo. Last year, she co-wrote "The Politics of Trains" in Jadaliyya, shortly after a train crashed into a school bus in southern Egypt and killed 50 children. I sat down to talk with her about what compelled her to write about the accident in a political context, and she told me that Egypt's fatally faulty trains are no accident.