Mubarak's hometown in search of stability

Mubarak's hometown in search of stability
 
 abercrombie saleThere is not much sign, in the village of Kafr Meselha, that this is the birthplace of an Egyptian president. On the wall of what used to be the Hosni Mubarak sports club, a huge Egyptian flag has been hung to hide a mural - obscuring a picture of the former president made from thousands of mosaic tiles. His old primary school still stands. It is the same building that he attended in the years before World War II, with what looks suspiciously like the same battered old desks he may have sat behind. The village itself has grown from a small agricultural community to a town of around 10,000 people, an ugly sprawl of half-finished buildings, no different from thousands of others across Egypt's Nile Delta. You won't find many of the local people coming forward to speak up for their former president. "I am not proud Hosni Mubarak is from here. He didn't do anything for Kafr Meselha," said Muhamad Omar, a young professional who wor...