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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
class • 11 min read
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
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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
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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
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