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Every year the state allocates money to flood relief, but where does it go?

Although the heavy rainfall shouldn’t come as a surprise, the government is…

Shaimaa Al-Aees

Sugar: one more problem for Egyptians

Since the end of September, Egypt has been facing a remarkable shortage…

Hisham Salah

The feasibility of Egypt’s national projects

  On 18 October, , said that Egypt has to focus on…

Hisham Salah

Al-Shaab Yaamor: an initiative for company marketing

The escalating price hikes are a hot debate in Egypt; citizens are…

Shaimaa Al-Aees

Egypt also bans burkini, but no one bats an eye

The burkini is banned in several places in a country where the…

Toqa Ezzidin

Chinese finance institutions immerse into Egypt’s economy, pump dollars into market

86 Chinese companies have invested more than $1.1bn in the Suez Canal…

Shaimaa Al-Aees

The economic toll of the new age of terrorism

    In the wake of the recent attack in Nice, the…

Mohamed Samir

Mental hospitals: from de facto detention to a homeless shelter

Recovered mental patients are still abandoned in hospitals because of social stigma

Menan Khater

The hardship of praying: churches under the state’s watchful eye

Amid distrust in the government, Copts demand secular vision to new law…

Amira El-Fekki

Deteriorated economy forces Egyptians to endure ‘slavery’, maltreatment in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

Some expats criticise discrimination and dwindling rights, consider kafala system a form…

Taha Sakr