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class • 19 min read

City Club: Investing in provincial middle-class dreams

Mohamed Ramadan | The main driver of increasingly distinct class enclaves in Egypt has been expanding privatization

3 July 2020

American University in Cairo • 9 min read

El 7ara: How the other 95 percent lives

Edmund Bower | “Well, they have to wear the tarboosh. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, they

24 April 2015

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A state in shackles

Lina Attalah | Among many of the perceived differences between the January 25, 2011 and the June 30, 2013 mobilizations

1 January 2014

Amr 7a7a • 10 min read

You just got mahraganed

Andeel | It’s going to be difficult for you to like mahraganat if you’re the kind of person who asks the waiter

22 September 2013

Opinion

Rana Baker

Return to what? Against misreadings of Gaza’s Great March

Israel's organization of power has created new relations between different classes of Palestinians.

14 October 2019

Mahienour al-Massry

A letter from prison

Mahienour al-Massry, imprisoned on charges based on the Protest Law, writes from her prison cell:

7 June 2014

Mika Minio-Paluello and Reem Labib

Cold: A silent killer in Egypt

Yesterday’s hailstorm and rainstorm across Egypt brought a reminder that the harsh winter isn’t

9 March 2014

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News

Cairo International Airport • 3 min read

Yasmine al-Narsh sentenced to 4 years in prison for airport altercation

3 October 2015

Cartoons

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The most comfortable place in the world

Andeel | "You know, I've travelled to every place in the world. There's no place where I feel as comfortable as I feel here..."

7 October 2015

austerity measures

Cartoon: Responsibly built

Ola Salem | Fat man: You should have a smaller belly, for Egypt.

15 July 2014

cartoon

Cartoon: Racistless

Andeel | Egyptian man in swimming pool: "By the way I don't hate Egyptians at all, actually most of my friends are Egyptian." Egyptian woman: "Yeah?"

13 July 2014