“A doctor is coming to vaccinate you against Covid-19,” a father told his three daughters as a doctor paid them an unexpected visit two weeks ago during the current coronavirus lockdown and school closures.
The young girls, all aged under 18, had (...)
Egypt has the unfortunate distinction of ranking first in the world for infection with the hepatitis C virus, with seven million people, or around 10 percent of the population, being infected in 2007. Infection rates in India and China stood at (...)
Female preachers appointed by the Ministry of Religious Endowments were allowed for the first time to give sermons in mosques on female fasting, beliefs and ethics on the ministry's instructions during this year's Ramadan. Some 300 female preachers (...)
Every Ramadan, many people complain about rising prices and their inability to meet their basic needs for the holy month due, they say, to price-gouging by vendors. Some 27 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, said Abu Bakr (...)
Every Ramadan, many people complain about rising prices and their inability to meet their basic needs for the holy month due, they say, to price-gouging by vendors.
Some 27 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, said Abu Bakr (...)
“My income is LE5,000 a month, from which I pay LE1,700 in rent. I have three children and spend LE2,000 on private tutoring. Then there is LE500 for petrol, LE200 for electricity, and LE150 for maintenance. My salary has vanished, without spending (...)
“I got married twice and got divorced twice, meaning that I have lived through divorce and child custody twice,” says 37-year-old Fatma.
Fatma's first marriage broke up after she gave birth to a child with brain damage that resulted in her son's (...)
One story once doing the rounds in Cairo reported on a mother and her two children who had sold their kidneys in order to buy a television and a refrigerator among other electrical appliances, only to have the latter stolen the same night that they (...)
“My son survived, but I will definitely allow him to retake the risk of emigrating to Europe on an illegal boat trip if he ever has the chance to,” said the father of a 16-year-old boy who survived an illegal emigration tragedy off Egypt's northern (...)
“I didn't have Hepatitis C before I underwent hernia repair surgery in a university-affiliated hospital in Cairo,” grumbles Magda, a 50-something Hepatitis C (HCV) patient, whose tired, heavily wrinkled face expresses an inner sense of bitterness. (...)