Entering into this constructed slum, all
you can hear are noises in variant forms: the market, the wedding, the beggars,
the harassers, and loud popular music. To make it noisier, every few minutes, quarrels
would break out here and there. The environment was designed to make one not
only feel very irritable, but also unsafe. For how could a person feel safe among those wild barbaric creatures?
Anyone who has ever entered a real
Egyptian slum would quickly notice how different it is from the AUC-exaggerated version. The markets may be as noisy as portrayed, but only during peak hours (no
more than 4-6 a day). Other sources of noise do not reflect reality. For
instance, why would a beggar beg in a slum?