Basma Mostafa
 
 
features
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
 
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