Basma Mostafa

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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"

14 April 2020

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.

8 April 2020

Coronavirus • 9 min read

The nurse who accompanied her daughter in quarantine

Basma Mostafa | “I begged them to let me go with my daughter."

5 April 2020

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."

17 March 2020

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

10 January 2018

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

11 May 2017

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police violence • 10 min read

Security forces shoot worker in the chest during house raid

23 November 2016