Christmas is coming in Giza, but the neighbourhood is far from
festive. The road to St Mary’s, the half-built church in the
neighbourhood of Al-Talbiyya, is strewn with giant clumps of concrete –
all torn from the four-lane highway that towers above.
It was from this highway late last month that security forces launched a barrage of tear gas, live ammunition and handheld rocks upon thousands of Coptic Christians demonstrating below
