Egypt has always relied heavily on oil and gas as energy sources, and until a few years ago it has also mainly depended on power plants fuelled by oil and coal, with no companies working on generating renewable energy and an absence of solar power (...)
What would Mohamed Al-Maghut, the late Syrian writer who often wrote about the poor, have said if he visited some of the remote villages in Egypt's southern governorates? Would he have talked about their isolation, decried their forlornness, told (...)
‘Poverty is the worst form of violence'
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly one-third of Egypt's population lives in Upper Egypt, the region known in Arabic as the Saeed. The Upper Egyptians, or Saeedis, are often depicted in novels and films as being tough and (...)