On the first, still jubilant, day of the 2014 presidential elections a group of women had gathered outside a polling station in the leafy, affluent district of Heliopolis...
The continuous political turmoil Egypt since January 2011 has resulted in a decline of the annual growth rate to a level near recession, which has turned many of the chronic structural defects of the country’s economy into urgent and pressing crises.
An Interview with Nazra for Feminist Studies, an Egyptian group that documents cases of gender-based violence, offers psychological, medical and legal support for survivors, and works with female politicians to boost representation.
Egypt first declared May 1 an official holiday 50 years ago. That same year, on May 1, 1964, three workers were born — Ahmed Mahmoud from the Public Transportation Authority, Ali Aref from the Steam Boilers and Hesham Abu Zaid from the Tanta Flax factory.
