The City Council of Cairo approved a set of plans to dramatically alter the polluted city’s face. Yet critics fear that the council’s “green” intentions are a cover to hide the true aspirations of the real-estate mafia. MO* spoke with Egyptian historian Khaled Fahmy about the relocation of the oldest functioning cemetery in the world.

How does the future of the “green movement” look like? Is Teheran preparing for an “Iranian Intifada” or are revolutionary aspirations a song of the past? Who is supporting the Iranian opposition movement? And how is President Ahmadinejad doing in the meantime? MO* asked Peyman Jafari, author of The Other Iran.