Society

On crutches and in circles: Mohamed's year-long struggle for a disability card in Egypt

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One man’s struggle to renew Egypt’s disability card exposes systemic delays, fees, and bureaucracy blocking access to essential rights.

Eslam Gaber_ 27-8-2025

On crutches and in circles: Mohamed's year-long struggle for a disability card in Egypt

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

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As Egypt’s public schools falter, the government turns to the kuttab—a centuries-old Quranic school model—as a surprising fix for a deepening education crisis.

Ahmed Aly_ 19-8-2025

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

Mosque moonlighting: Why Egypt has so many freelance imams

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Inside Egypt’s black market for beautiful voices, where prayer pays—and rejection feeds a calling.

Yousef Okail_ 29-7-2025

Mosque moonlighting: Why Egypt has so many freelance imams

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

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When the law stays silent, injustice speaks loudest. In Egypt, survivors like Asmaa face broken systems and archaic laws that protect abusers more than the abused.

Fatma El-Zahraa Badawy_ 12-7-2025

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

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They left at dawn chasing a day’s wage—and came back in coffins. In Kafr El-Sanabsa, 18 girls died on the road. Their families want more than condolences. They want justice.

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 8-7-2025

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

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Once a journalist, now a water seller. A supreme judge turned shopkeeper. War in Sudan has redrawn lives, forcing professionals to redefine identity and survival.

Mussab Mohamed Ali_ 4-7-2025

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

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A murder sparks renewed focus on Egypt’s Coptic divorce crisis, where church control, outdated laws, and state inaction leave women trapped in violent marriages.

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 29-6-2025

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

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Hundreds of Syrian students are locked out of Egypt mid-degree as visa delays and new entry rules derail academic dreams and drain families of tuition and housing costs.

Sara El-Hareth_ 5-6-2025

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

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When Egypt’s promise of easy jobs meets the reality of broken dreams: inside the applied tech schools trapping students in a maze of promises they can’t escape.

Doaa Emam_ 2-6-2025

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

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Young freelancers speak out about working as journalists in Egypt under legal threat, weak protections, and shrinking pay

Yousef Okail_ 1-6-2025

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

Glut of medical graduates, but no jobs to fill

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Egypt's decision to end mandatory medical placements leaves graduates in limbo. Despite a saturated market, new dentistry, pharmacy, and physical therapy faculties are opening.

Ahmed Aly_ 1-6-2025

Glut of medical graduates, but no jobs to fill

The right to Half: Inside the fight for women’s share of matrimonial money

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For decades, Egyptian women's invisible labor supported families. Now, a religious legal principle may redefine divorce justice. But will it truly make a difference?

Mayar Mekky_ 25-5-2025

The right to Half: Inside the fight for women’s share of matrimonial money

In student dorms, inflation is being served three times a day

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Amid soaring inflation, university students face shrinking dorm meals and rising costs, forcing many to work or buy food outside just to stay nourished.

Omar Samy_ 11-5-2025

In student dorms, inflation is being served three times a day

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

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A husky’s killing in rural Egypt goes viral exposing a deeper crisis of empathy, justice, and how a nation treats its most vulnerable: the animals on its streets.

Menna Sharafeldeen_ 8-5-2025

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

The church of the 'Top Notch'

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At Sunday school, faith once brought kids together. Now, class divides them by uniform, accent, and trip schedule.

Faten Sobhi_ 2-5-2025

The church of the 'Top Notch'

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

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In Egypt's circuses and zoos, applause drowns out a dark truth. Behind the animal tricks lies a vast, unseen world of suffering and abuse.

Ahmed Aly_ 1-5-2025

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

Raising a bully? The struggle to curb childhood abuse in schools

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70% of Egyptian kids face bullying, yet schools lack solutions. Despite laws, enforcement lags as families and institutions struggle to break the cycle of abuse

Hagar Othman_ 22-4-2025

Raising a bully? The struggle to curb childhood abuse in schools

Divorced, not done! Why I'll wear a white dress in my wedding

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Divorced women face stigma for remarrying, wearing white, or celebrating love again. Yet some resist, reclaiming love and celebration on their own terms.

Hanan El-Gohary_ 20-4-2025

Divorced, not done! Why I'll wear a white dress in my wedding