( CNN ) -- There 's more to do in Cairo than just protest . Just look at lifestyle website CairoScene . On Tuesday , for instance , there 's Johnny 's Karaoke Night , Culturewheel 's Mime Festival and the Arab Music Festival Ceremony at the Cairo Opera House . You can get one pizza free if you buy another at Boosters , and it 's ladies night at Yasso Lounge . The young Egyptians who put out CairoScene work at a building in an upscale Cairo neighborhood . It 's next to Nahda Square , where the Muslim Brotherhood staged a sit-in , and the protests sometimes prevented them from getting to work . Today , the Brotherhood protesters are gone and there 's no missing the military presence outside the building . At one intersection , troops stand guard from an armored personnel carrier as pedestrians stroll by . Inside CairoScene 's offices , young Egyptians huddle around sparkling white tables and lounge on white couches , peering into computers . They talk about their latest stories and the unrest raging across Egypt . Top Muslim Brotherhood figure among scores arrested . `` We asked for this , '' site co-founder Timy Mowafi said . `` The Egyptian people asked for the army to intervene . '' Among many in the newsroom , the military crackdown against supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy is necessary , if unfortunate . `` It 's devastating to think of the numbers who have died on either side , but there were armed people on the streets , '' Mowafi said . `` This would not be acceptable in any other country . '' But not everyone agrees wholeheartedly . `` Personally , I 'm not with the military , but I 'm also definitely not with the Brotherhood , '' said Eihab Boraie , a senior writer for the site . `` We will have to take up Tahrir again , '' he said , referring to the landmark Cairo square that served as the backdrop for the 2011 protests that led to the ouster of longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak . `` And when we take up Tahrir , '' he said , `` it will be against the Brotherhood and against the military , and it will be for peaceful transition to immediate election . '' Opinion : Can anyone save Egypt from the brink ? 'In God 's hands ' With hundreds dead , funerals are frequent . One recent day , relatives held the funeral for Ammar Badie , the slain son of the now-arrested leader of the Muslim Brotherhood . He was shot twice in the head last week as security forces clashed with protesters . On this hot , sunny Cairo day , mourners carried his plain wooden coffin into a crypt . Men wept , shook hands , said goodbye . `` It 's a disgrace people were saying he was a terrorist , '' said Ammar Badie 's cousin , Omar Rabiya . `` He was not -- he was a person of peace , a smart guy -- and he just wanted his country to be free . '' Ammar 's brother Bilal told mourners not to cry . `` This is in God 's hands , '' he said . Egypt 's cycle of violence . 'The church is my home ' Outside Cairo last week , 67-year-old Shenouda el Sayeh swept up ashes amid the burned ruins of the Virgin Mary Church . The church was one of at least 30 attacked last week amid backlash over the military crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood . The Rev . Boktor Saad , the church 's pastor , said Islamists were behind the attack . `` They started organizing marches and demonstrations , chanting outside the church , chanting down with the church , '' he said . To el Sayeh , the church , now charred and gutted , was home . `` I 'm sad , '' he said . `` My religion tells me to come clean . I clean the church . The church is my home . '' ' I feel frustrated ' Life amid the chaos is n't terrifying for 20-year-old student Mayar Adly . It 's boring . `` I do n't go out as much as I used to go before , '' she said . `` I 'm so bored . My life sucks . '' And there are moments of panic . A couple of days ago , the family heard gunshots outside during a protest . `` I thought it was fireworks , but they told me it was gunshots '' Adly said . `` My mom told me to stay away from the window . It was kind of freaky . I was scared . '' Barred from protesting by her father , she spends most of her time in a three-room high-rise apartment with her two younger brothers , her parents and five cats . A local market delivers their groceries , and she gets to go out only rarely -- to a cleaning job at a nearby bank . She spends time on Facebook , reading and watching television -- but not the news . `` I 'm fed up with news , '' she said . `` I used to be interested in the news , but I 'm not as interested as I used to be . '' I feel frustrated , '' she said . `` I worry about how much longer I 'll have to stay at home . '' U.S. temporarily holds up some military aid to Egypt . CNN 's Ian Lee and Arwa Damon contributed to this report .
Egyptians describe life during the country 's violent protests . `` I worry about how much longer I 'll have to stay at home , '' says a 20-year-old student . The Egyptian government has been cracking down on protesters since mid-February and is now trying to quell unrest in several cities across Egypt by using force against demonstrators.