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Luxury jabs: The cost of immunity in a two-tiered childhood

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Beyond Egypt’s mandatory pediatric schedule lies a costly, parallel tier of supplemental vaccines that effectively turns infant immunity into a commodity for the affluent.

Sara El-Hareth_ 10-6-2026

Luxury jabs: The cost of immunity in a two-tiered childhood

Quotas and quietude: Why Egypt’s labor market is failing women

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From symbolic leadership to precarious, unprotected labor, Egypt’s gender gap is widening. Forces of exclusion continue to drive women from the workforce at an alarming rate.

Lobna Darwish_ 5-5-2026

Quotas and quietude: Why Egypt’s labor market is failing women

The solace of love-making in war

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Intimacy is a space no wider than two shoulders, yet more expansive than cities lost to grief. It is the only place left to bury the world’s relentless cruelty.

Mariana Samy_ 22-4-2026

The solace of love-making in war

Between bombs and condemnation: Displacement in Lebanon's South

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Displaced twice under Israel’s war, Lebanese families from the south face rising rents, closed doors and a country struggling to absorb them.

Lama Abokharroub_ 26-3-2026

Between bombs and condemnation: Displacement in Lebanon's South

Resistance through the eye of the needle: Masafer Yatta's night guardians

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Under the cover of storms and darkness, Israeli settlers target livestock and water tanks. In Masafer Yatta, guarding the village has become a daily routine of communal survival.

Ansar Atmeizeh_ 19-2-2026

Resistance through the eye of the needle: Masafer Yatta's night guardians

Hanging by a thread: The trembling life of Palestinians between storms & deals

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Reconstruction in Gaza is held hostage to political deals, leaving families trapped between rising tides and eroding cliffs with no safe place left to flee.

Ebtesam Mahdy_ 19-2-2026

Hanging by a thread: The trembling life of Palestinians between storms & deals

Egypt's cold sweep on refugees

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Intensified security operations impose a new rhythm on refugees’ lives in Egypt. What were once intermittent campaigns have become a near-daily reality.

Doaa Emam_ 16-2-2026

Egypt's cold sweep on refugees

The Price of Hope: Egg Freezing in Egypt

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Egg freezing in Egypt offers hope at a high price. As demand rises, limited regulation and soaring costs turn reproductive choice into a luxury few can afford.

Mahitab Abdel Fattah_ 12-2-2026

The Price of Hope: Egg Freezing in Egypt

Stacked odds: The predatory pandemic of online gambling

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"The casino is in your pocket." An investigation into the algorithm-driven apps and underground crypto-networks fueling Egypt’s invisible online gambling epidemic.

Eslam Gaber_ 9-2-2026

Stacked odds: The predatory pandemic of online gambling

A lifeline on hold: Christian women’s legal limbo

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For Christian women in Egypt, domestic violence, enforced silence and a stalled personal status law form a single system that traps them in abusive marriages.

Tina Hamed_ 5-2-2026

A lifeline on hold: Christian women’s legal limbo

When sound breaks the bones of Gaza’s fragile patients

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For Gaza’s brittle bone patients, war turns sound into a threat, as explosions, displacement and shortages make survival a daily struggle for children and adults alike.

Ebtesam Mahdy_ 3-2-2026

When sound breaks the bones of Gaza’s fragile patients

Addiction, relapse and Capitalism: Why it isn’t just your fault

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Addiction isn’t just a brain disease; it’s a social symptom. Egypt’s rehab market can’t cure what society creates.

Ahmed Mansy_ 22-12-2025

Addiction, relapse and Capitalism: Why it isn’t just your fault

The legal loophole making a million Egyptian child brides

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Over 900,000 Egyptian girls were married as children in just 11 years. Legal loopholes, ‘ratification contracts’ and custom keep turning childhood into wedlock.

Yousef Okail_ 15-12-2025

The legal loophole making a million Egyptian child brides

"Our Father Trump’s" plan delivers no salvation to Gazans

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From flooded tents and lost homes, Gazans watch Trump’s Gaza plan move ahead on paper while they see no cease-fire, no rebuilding and a future imposed without them.

Salem Elrayyes_ 8-12-2025

"Our Father Trump’s" plan delivers no salvation to Gazans

Male deacons only: Conservative voices silence women in the church

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A bishop’s attempt to revive women deaconesses in the Coptic Church sparks a conservative backlash that exposes deeper battles over authority and reform.

Mariana Samy_ 24-11-2025

Male deacons only: Conservative voices silence women in the church

The olive trees of the West Bank cried too

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With trees uprooted, permits restricted and settler violence escalating, Palestinians face their worst olive harvest in years—a season of grief instead of oil.

Ansar Atmeizeh_ 17-11-2025

The olive trees of the West Bank cried too

For Gazans in Egypt the road home is paved with pain

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As the war quiets, Gazans in Egypt weigh hope and hardship on the uncertain road back to their shattered homeland.

Ahmed Albordeny_ 26-10-2025

For Gazans in Egypt the road home is paved with pain

Restraining orders offer women little protection from violence

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In Egypt, restraining orders rarely shield women from threats and violence, exposing systemic failures and deadly consequences.

Mohamed El Kholy_ 12-10-2025

Restraining orders offer women little protection from violence

Gaza Journalist Diaries| My mother’s quiet exodus in a wheelchair

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A few days ago, I told her that we have to move again, and that our family would have to split up between two different places. She refused.

Salem Elrayyes_ 8-10-2025

Gaza Journalist Diaries| My mother’s quiet exodus in a wheelchair

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

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Faced with inflation and economic strain, more Egyptians are choosing smaller families—or none at all—reshaping the country’s population growth trajectory.

Shimaa Elkholy_ 1-10-2025

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

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Egypt’s health ministry launches a plan to curb unnecessary C-sections through oversight, awareness, and digitization amid world-leading rates of the surgery, but will it work?

Sara El-Hareth_ 28-9-2025

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

Education on credit: School loans sustain middle-class aspirations

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Egypt’s middle class turns to school loans as soaring private tuition outpaces incomes and inflation makes education harder to afford.

Eslam Aly_ 17-9-2025

Education on credit: School loans sustain middle-class aspirations

Feminist Investigation Committees: An alternative path to justice

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Despite repeated attempts to submit a unified law on violence to Egypt’s House of Representatives, the bill has yet to be discussed in a general parliamentary session.

Ahmed Albordeny_ 15-9-2025

Feminist Investigation Committees: An alternative path to justice

Citizenship during summer holidays

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Summer camps at mosques and churches dominate children’s holidays, leaving few secular alternatives. Families turn to faith spaces as state cultural centers fade.

Sara El-Hareth_ 8-9-2025

Citizenship during summer holidays