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Coronavirus
18 min read
Stranded during the pandemic: Estrangement and limbo
Basma Mostafa and Hadeer El-Mahdawy
| “If I’d known what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have come back to Egypt"
Coronavirus
8 min read
For locked-down village near Mahalla, solidarity and dignity are keys to surviving quarantine
Basma Mostafa
| Some Hayatem residents have chafed at the state’s intervention, choosing to organize themselves.
Coronavirus
9 min read
The nurse who accompanied her daughter in quarantine
Basma Mostafa
| “I begged them to let me go with my daughter."
informal housing
14 min read
Floods hit Zarayeb garbage collectors the hardest
Basma Mostafa
| "It’s difficult to calculate the number of families ... we receive survivors every 5 minutes."
detainee and prisoner deaths
16 min read
Death by torture in Moqattam Police Station: The final two hours of Afroto
Basma Mostafa
| Mada Masr speaks to friends, family and cellmates to piece together what happened to Afroto
Islamist Militant attacks on Copts
7 min read
Nabil Saber: A displaced Copt killed over a stamp
Basma Mostafa
| Nabil Saber was shot after returning to Arish to obtain a stamp for his son's academic record
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