The Cairo Report

The Cairo Report

Egypt wants to enforce a child safety policy, on the security apparatus’s terms
Mandatory age checks promise parents greater control. The harder work of protecting children would require limits on social media companies and security…
Sep 30 • Saher
Egypt, The New Republic: Hunger strikes on the rigs, digital sweatshops & factories cleared for capital
Labor dispatch!
Sep 27 • Fadila and Saher
The night Egypt massacred Sudanese refugees in Cairo
In 2005, Egyptian riot police killed dozens of Sudanese refugees in a Cairo square. Few choose to remember it, but it explains why, twenty years later…
Sep 25 • Fadila
What we’re reading: A Gestapo chief's narco-state, BRICS's Red Sea fracture, Egypt's mortgaged sovereignty & more
Reading list 006
Sep 23 • Saher and Fadila
Egypt, The New Republic: Unpaid workers, broken promises & bulldozer politics
Labor dispatch!
Sep 20 • Fadila and Saher
Egypt remains near bottom of global gender gap ranking despite nominal gains
Egypt climbed one place to 138th out of 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s latest gender gap index.
Sep 19 • Saher and Fadila
Egypt, Saudi Arabia & the Houthi chokepoint
The Cairo meeting between MbS and Sisi placed Saudi security, Egyptian economic interests, and control of Bab el-Mandab on the same table.
Sep 18 • Saher
Egypt, The New Republic: Workers fight for wages, safety & justice
Labor dispatch!
Sep 13 • Saher and Fadila
The New Republic’s ‘Golden age for women’ & its ledger
How austerity, unpaid labor, and the prosecution of abuse survivors reveal the limits of Sisi’s “golden age for women” in Egypt, The New Republic.
Sep 11 • Lama
What we’re reading: Chinese robots, Assad’s death sentence, Egyptian political prisoners’ families & more
Reading list 005
Sep 9 • Saher and Fadila
Alexandria’s demolished shops & the broken promise of return
Alexandria’s Abu al-Abbas shop owners lost their livelihoods to redevelopment. Promised replacement shops never came, while their court cases remain…
Sep 8 • Fadila
Egypt, The New Republic: Minimum wage violations, factory safety failures & pension poverty
Labor dispatch!
Sep 6 • Saher and Fadila
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