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Shade for Sale: Egypt’s Tree-Planting Rhetoric Meets the Saws of Local Authorities

On his regular journeys between construction sites in Cairo...

 Sayed Darwish: When Music Began to Speak in the People’s Voice

On 15 September 1923—not the 10th, as is still...

Utopia: Imagine a plastic-free life in your town

At a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Imbaba,...

Egypt’s Migrant Dilemma: What Does the State Really Want?

At eleven o’clock at night, the Hadayek el-Ahram district...

Trapped in the Web of “Fashion’s Spider”.. We Export Cotton to the West, Only to Wear Its Waste

We spend months planting, nurturing, and harvesting cotton, only for it to be shipped abroad, while we are left with nothing to...

A Tent in Exile and a Deferred Dream of Return:Sudanese Refugees in Uganda Paint the Picture of Their “Alternative Homeland”

In the Kiryandongo refugee camp for Sudanese refugees in Uganda, under a modest tent, Aisha Al-Noor lives with her three daughters and...