All photographs by Nour El-Din Their careless stare follows you from the car top they are lying on. They are experts in crossing Cairo’s streets, and from time to time they manage to steal a stroke at your local ahwa. From 31 May till 17 July, however, they’re stealing the show during an exhibition at the newly launched K Project Space. We are talking about Cairo’s cats. When Jared McCormick, a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, moved to Cairo in 2012, he found himself repeatedly taking pictures of the many street cats the metropolis counts. “I love all animals but I am especially drawn to cats,” he says about the ‘street pets’ as he dubs them. “People often bemoan the ‘horrible situation’ of animals in Egypt but when you pause, you witness much care and affection for them. These cats might not be ‘pets’ in the home but are ‘street pets’ that are looked after in a different way,” he adds. “For instance, next time you’re walking around Downtown, Heliopolis, or Nasr City notice all the used koshari bowls put out full of water.” CairoCats The pieces…
