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Zawag el-safka involves a much older man paying money to marry a girl for defined period of time Sarah El Masry
DNE

A business deal called marriage

When poverty and lack of awareness turns marriage to a business deal;…

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Clothes dry outside Amal’s home Ethar Shalaby
DNE

Sexual abuse within the family

Sexual abuse in Egypt is a great taboo but it is the…

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children

The little men and women of Egypt

“The children we deprive today of their childhood, will deprive us from…

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Fishing boats lie in the water off the coast of Gaza AFP Photo / Mahmud Hams
activists

When the dust settles in Gaza…

The continuing battles of an independent activist in Palestine

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Abuse

Cabinet clashes remembered

Egypt ended 2011 with street fighting that left many dead

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The movement is demanding the people who killed Jika be brought to justice. (file photo) Mohamed Omar
6 april

6 April: the facts

The 6 April Youth Movement which started with a Facebook group is…

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Pedestrians pass by the alluring exterior of Cafe Riche Hassan Ibrahim
Borsa

Cairo’s Downtown coffeehouses

Downtown Cairo is Egypt’s heart of cultural and political dynamism and coffeehouses…

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The fifth edition of the Street Music Revolution festival held in a public garden in Heliopolis, and sponsored by the American Development Foundation Marwa Abbas
bands

The Egyptian underground music scene

How independent musicians suffer to present their art and dream of a…

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Al Fayoum Street in the neighbourhood of Doweika where most of the inhabitants migrated from Fayoum bringing with them practices such early marriage Sarah El Masry
Daily News Egypt

Under-reported and underage: Early marriage in Egypt

Early marriage in Egypt is a prevalent problem, too often framed within…

Sarah El Masry Sarah El Masry
Tens of thousands people take part in a mass rally in Tahrir Square against the decree by President Morsy. The planned demonstrations came a day after Morsy stuck by his controversial decree in a meeting with judges that was aimed at defusing the worst political crisis since his election in June AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia

Crisis in Pictures

Images tell the story of Egypt's constitutional crisis

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