Losing touch
Now, I sense danger in everything I touch, and I am strangely, excessively aware of my hands
Now, I sense danger in everything I touch, and I am strangely, excessively aware of my hands
The hours are grueling, and they often go with little sleep on long drives to and from hospitals.
“The second wave of coronavirus casualties will be primarily psychological."
"That’s the danger of all this material, I think we need more time alone with our thoughts."
How much will we normalize surveillance of our lives, for the sake of supposed safety?
“We feel as if every road has been shut in our faces.”
"If a delivery worker gets infected, they will easily replace him with another one"
"Whatever old cases they have lying around, they implicate him in them"
The education minister has said the ministry will not look into the issue until August.
They do so at risk of infection, working within a system that does little to protect them.
“We have to look after ourselves as parents, otherwise we can’t help them.”
“If I’d known what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have come back to Egypt"
“If you don’t see facial expressions, you don’t understand how people are thinking”
Abeer remains committed to serving her customers by taking precautionary measures in her salon.
"The number of ventilators is insufficient for Egypt's population under normal circumstances"
A conversation with EIPR's Alaa Ghanam on its strengths and weaknesses
Some Hayatem residents have chafed at the state’s intervention, choosing to organize themselves.
Four nurses recount the spread of the virus in Egypt’s main cancer hospital
“I begged them to let me go with my daughter."
What do the manufacture of automobiles and ventilators have in common?
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