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In the hands of butchers: Egypt’s obstetric violence crisis

While medical institutions treat maternal pain as ordinary, experts warn that the lack of legal criminalization leaves the poorest women exposed to severe institutional trauma.

Rahma Samy_

In the hands of butchers: Egypt’s obstetric violence crisis

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Sedition à la carte| How the faithful come to believe

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Why did thousands embrace the Tayyibat diet? Beneath the viral craze lies a survival strategy of selective belief, birthed by skyrocketing medical costs and neglect.

Saker El Nour_

Sedition à la carte| How the faithful come to believe

Luxury jabs: The cost of immunity in a two-tiered childhood

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Beyond Egypt’s mandatory pediatric schedule lies a costly, parallel tier of supplemental vaccines that effectively turns infant immunity into a commodity for the affluent.

Sara El-Hareth_

Luxury jabs: The cost of immunity in a two-tiered childhood

Aid vs. empowerment: The economic siege on feminist advocacy

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From severed USAID lifelines to "political punishment" for Gaza advocacy, Egypt’s civil society is struggling to survive a radical shift in the global support map.

Doaa Emam_

Aid vs. empowerment: The economic siege on feminist advocacy

Sent abroad, then shut out

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Thousands of Egyptian women built their families' futures on Gulf wages. Now, a sweeping Ministry of Labor ban has pulled the floor from under them.

Fatehy Eldabae_

Sent abroad, then shut out

Quotas and quietude: Why Egypt’s labor market is failing women

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From symbolic leadership to precarious, unprotected labor, Egypt’s gender gap is widening. Forces of exclusion continue to drive women from the workforce at an alarming rate.

Lobna Darwish_

Quotas and quietude: Why Egypt’s labor market is failing women

The solace of love-making in war

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Intimacy is a space no wider than two shoulders, yet more expansive than cities lost to grief. It is the only place left to bury the world’s relentless cruelty.

Mariana Samy_

The solace of love-making in war

Egypt's cold sweep on refugees

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Intensified security operations impose a new rhythm on refugees’ lives in Egypt. What were once intermittent campaigns have become a near-daily reality.

Doaa Emam_

Egypt's cold sweep on refugees

The Price of Hope: Egg Freezing in Egypt

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Egg freezing in Egypt offers hope at a high price. As demand rises, limited regulation and soaring costs turn reproductive choice into a luxury few can afford.

Mahitab Abdel Fattah_

The Price of Hope: Egg Freezing in Egypt

Stacked odds: The predatory pandemic of online gambling

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"The casino is in your pocket." An investigation into the algorithm-driven apps and underground crypto-networks fueling Egypt’s invisible online gambling epidemic.

Eslam Gaber_

Stacked odds: The predatory pandemic of online gambling

A lifeline on hold: Christian women’s legal limbo

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For Christian women in Egypt, domestic violence, enforced silence and a stalled personal status law form a single system that traps them in abusive marriages.

Tina Hamed_

A lifeline on hold: Christian women’s legal limbo

When sound breaks the bones of Gaza’s fragile patients

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For Gaza’s brittle bone patients, war turns sound into a threat, as explosions, displacement and shortages make survival a daily struggle for children and adults alike.

Ebtesam Mahdy_

When sound breaks the bones of Gaza’s fragile patients

The legal loophole making a million Egyptian child brides

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Over 900,000 Egyptian girls were married as children in just 11 years. Legal loopholes, ‘ratification contracts’ and custom keep turning childhood into wedlock.

Yousef Okail_

The legal loophole making a million Egyptian child brides

"Our Father Trump’s" plan delivers no salvation to Gazans

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From flooded tents and lost homes, Gazans watch Trump’s Gaza plan move ahead on paper while they see no cease-fire, no rebuilding and a future imposed without them.

Salem Elrayyes_

"Our Father Trump’s" plan delivers no salvation to Gazans

The olive trees of the West Bank cried too

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With trees uprooted, permits restricted and settler violence escalating, Palestinians face their worst olive harvest in years—a season of grief instead of oil.

Ansar Atmeizeh_

The olive trees of the West Bank cried too

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

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Faced with inflation and economic strain, more Egyptians are choosing smaller families—or none at all—reshaping the country’s population growth trajectory.

Shimaa Elkholy_

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

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Egypt’s health ministry launches a plan to curb unnecessary C-sections through oversight, awareness, and digitization amid world-leading rates of the surgery, but will it work?

Sara El-Hareth_

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

Feminist Investigation Committees: An alternative path to justice

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Despite repeated attempts to submit a unified law on violence to Egypt’s House of Representatives, the bill has yet to be discussed in a general parliamentary session.

Ahmed Albordeny_

Feminist Investigation Committees: An alternative path to justice

Citizenship during summer holidays

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Summer camps at mosques and churches dominate children’s holidays, leaving few secular alternatives. Families turn to faith spaces as state cultural centers fade.

Sara El-Hareth_

Citizenship during summer holidays

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_

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

A delayed smile from Gaza

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Palestinian women who survived Israeli airstrikes in Gaza face disfigurement, trauma, and delayed treatment as they fight to reclaim their bodies—and their identities.

Diana Elmaghrabi_

A delayed smile from Gaza

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

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In Egypt, poor women turn to farm work and TikTok to survive. Instead of protection, they face arrests, shaming, and laws that criminalize their lives.

Omaima Emad_

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

‘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_

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

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_

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_

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_

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

Society_

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

Yousef Okail_

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_

Glut of medical graduates, but no jobs to fill

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_

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_

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_

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_

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_

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_

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