Egypt Daily october,2013 | Page 8

EGYPT AND OVER POPULATION

Imagine what a city of nearly 18 million residents should look and sound like on a working time. Cairo, which is known as the city that never sleeps, is ranked among the most overpopulated metropolises in the world, and of course among the loudest. For decades, Egyptians have favored noise and selected a community life above privacy. This practice has an incredible result on Egypt’s state nowadays. Cairo, the gradually overpopulated metropolis, has two million cars and drivers, not to state buses, trains, and motorcycles. All those factors managed to the mismanagement of the city’s abilities and to an unbearable sound that each person who comes on a vacation in Egypt can’t aid but instantly notice. Because this sound is tremendously elevated, it has been a concern and a subject for studies by scientists worldwide for this sound level has large results on the citizens of Cairo, two of which are physical results and spasms of violence.

Although the physical results could be believed irrelevant to a few who are altered by sound, it has to be acknowledged that those physical results have an encounter on people’s everyday life. According to the article “A City Where You Can’t Hear Scream” published by The New York Times, Egyptians living in the capital city experience sleeping disorders. For example, numerous amounts of people cannot sleep well at evening because of the sound beyond their windows. Such a disturbance harshly affects the person’s performance on the following day, and so the chain never ends. Workers cannot focus at work, while teenagers absorb less data at school. Furthermore, studies have shown tremendous results on how noise is related to cause illness to some people. For instance, individuals have been complaining about them being bad-tempered. They are easily distracted while driving because of mental exhaustion due to the continuous