Residents of Cairo's Cheriton neighborhood were shocked to see a garden being demolished. Lina Khatib: The panic quickly sunk into resignation. She says the residents never found out where exactly the order for demolition came from, let alone why or how to stop it. "It's hard to know why anything happens," Khatib writes.
It started with a few cones and a cryptic sign.
Produced by Omar Etman. Edited by Liza Yeager, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir.
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