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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

On crutches and in circles: Mohamed's year-long struggle for a disability card in Egypt

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One man’s struggle to renew Egypt’s disability card exposes systemic delays, fees, and bureaucracy blocking access to essential rights.

Eslam Gaber_ 27-8-2025

On crutches and in circles: Mohamed's year-long struggle for a disability card in Egypt

Inside Giza Zoo: Skinned hides, incinerated carcasses, and unanswered questions

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Lions and tigers vanished. Carcasses burned. As Egypt renovates its oldest zoo, officials and activists uncover a trail of destruction behind locked gates.

Ahmed Aly_ 27-8-2025

Inside Giza Zoo: Skinned hides, incinerated carcasses, and unanswered questions

Beyond the accent: Hidden realities of international schools hiring in Egypt

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An insider’s look at how international schools in Egypt privilege foreign teachers over Egyptians, exposing deep inequalities in pay, status, and opportunity.

Basem Elbendary_ 24-8-2025

Beyond the accent: Hidden realities of international schools hiring in Egypt

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

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As Egypt’s public schools falter, the government turns to the kuttab—a centuries-old Quranic school model—as a surprising fix for a deepening education crisis.

Ahmed Aly_ 19-8-2025

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

A delayed smile from Gaza

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Palestinian women who survived Israeli airstrikes in Gaza face disfigurement, trauma, and delayed treatment as they fight to reclaim their bodies—and their identities.

Diana Elmaghrabi_ 17-8-2025

A delayed smile from Gaza

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

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In Egypt, poor women turn to farm work and TikTok to survive. Instead of protection, they face arrests, shaming, and laws that criminalize their lives.

Omaima Emad_ 11-8-2025

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

Mosque moonlighting: Why Egypt has so many freelance imams

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Inside Egypt’s black market for beautiful voices, where prayer pays—and rejection feeds a calling.

Yousef Okail_ 29-7-2025

Mosque moonlighting: Why Egypt has so many freelance imams

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

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When the law stays silent, injustice speaks loudest. In Egypt, survivors like Asmaa face broken systems and archaic laws that protect abusers more than the abused.

Fatma El-Zahraa Badawy_ 12-7-2025

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

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They left at dawn chasing a day’s wage—and came back in coffins. In Kafr El-Sanabsa, 18 girls died on the road. Their families want more than condolences. They want justice.

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 8-7-2025

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

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Once a journalist, now a water seller. A supreme judge turned shopkeeper. War in Sudan has redrawn lives, forcing professionals to redefine identity and survival.

Mussab Mohamed Ali_ 4-7-2025

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

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A murder sparks renewed focus on Egypt’s Coptic divorce crisis, where church control, outdated laws, and state inaction leave women trapped in violent marriages.

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 29-6-2025

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

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Hundreds of Syrian students are locked out of Egypt mid-degree as visa delays and new entry rules derail academic dreams and drain families of tuition and housing costs.

Sara El-Hareth_ 5-6-2025

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students