Both sweet and sour, harankash — or goldenberries — are fun to peel and eat straight from the street carts where they're sold. From rural fields to the palms of…
As survivors of a major fire in downtown Cairo last week take toll of the dramatic few days they lived with flames, smoke and ashes, they blame the government for…
Following a day of violent clashes with security forces on January 28, 2011 — otherwise dubbed as the “Friday of Anger” — protestors battled over space in Downtown Cairo, as…
In the early hours of Sunday, police and military personnel began clearing street vendors from downtown Cairo’s Ramses Square in order to temporarily relocate them to the Ahmed Helmy Station.…
Egypt’s state television broadcast a video appearing to show Giulio Regeni speaking with a street venders union member
Cairo Governor Galal Saeed announced on Tuesday that heads of neighborhoods have been granted the power of arrest to facilitate the management…
Continuing a policy of removing informal markets from Central Cairo, the government has evicted street vendors from the streets surrounding the parliament…
Police forces shut down a number of popular street cafés in downtown Cairo on Monday morning. The Bursa area near the Egyptian…
In a press conference Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said that the state is reclaiming Downtown Cairo as one of…
On Sunday morning the streets were clear of vendors, but jam-packed with security forces, armored vehicles and military police. Cairo Governor Galal…
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