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How debt swallowed Egypt’s budget & is there a way out?
Almost half of Egypt's planned expenditure goes to debt interest. The claim on public money is visible in what remains for schools, hospitals and…
 • Sameh Naguib and Saher
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…
 • Saher
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…
 • Fadila
Egypt, FIFA & the making of Gianni Infantino’s African power base
Egypt’s support for the FIFA president rests on a decade of shared electoral campaigns, commercial restructuring, and state investment that has made…
 • Saher
What we know about the anti-violence against women draft law
Unpacking the proposed unified bill aiming to criminalize gender-based violence in Egypt, and what it means for women’s rights.
 • Fadila
Corruption is the name of the game in the Delta
This is a story of how suits robbed blue collars at one of Egypt’s most important fertilizer factories—& got away with it, year after year.
 • Saher
Egypt, The New Republic: Economic recovery & its labor discontent
The New Republic's economic model rests on more than fiscal adjustment & external inflows. It rests on keeping labor cheap, fragmented, & easier to…
 • Saher
The 10 trillion pound loophole: Land hoarding in Egypt, The New Republic
Why the property tax amendments changed almost nothing, who really controls land, and why genuine progressive reform was never on the table.
 • Saher
Egypt, The New Republic’s electoral onion
Egypt, The New Republic held its first House of Representatives elections. So, what happened that was so different this time around? Who did what? Why…
 • Saher
Healthcare in Egypt is a collapsing system, here’s how
Healthcare in Egypt as right, healthcare in Egypt as a business. Healthcare as a commodity, healthcare underfunded, a system in crisis, and yet another…
 • Saher
Education in The New Republic: Ultranationalism, blueprint exams & the ‘kuttab’
Egypt's Education Ministry continues to ban “controversial” topics, tightening existing state security control over education and promoting…
 • Saher
Same song & dance: The New Republic & an endless cycle of rent extraction
Despite the Egyptian government’s insistence that the economy is now in a state of recovery, the undeniable reality is that Egypt is reduced to the…
 • Saher
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