Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a ... almost 200 small brick factories in the Arab Jbour area, about 50 kilometers south of Cairo, said Salah Waheeb, who works for a British ...

2006-06-03 04:00:00 PDT Cairo-- At a school unlike any in the Middle East, 15-year-old Magdi Shenuda learns ... Many residents of this poverty-stricken settlement of 40,000 in an abandoned quarry ...

For the nearly third of Egyptians living in poverty, and the millions more ... Fatima, a 32-year-old cleaner in Cairo, says her family stopped buying red meat five months ago.

Egypt's plan to construct a new metropolis 45km east of Cairo was announced in March 2015 at a Sharm al-Sheikh summit held to lure back foreign investors who fled after the 2011 revolution.

150 miles south of Cairo’s burger bars and imported car dealerships, 15-year-old Sara sits mending clothes in her family ... A 2011 government study showed that rural poverty, already severe, is on ...

Hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants call Cairo their temporary home. Many have fled deadly violence or dire poverty at home only to face racist harassment, violence and rape in ...

This is poverty, I tell myself ... people mulling around in the dirty, decades-old train have a look of unease. It is because they are headed for Cairo, looking for a job and better life.

Nearly a third of Egyptians are living in poverty and millions more in ... Fatima, a 32-year-old cleaner in Cairo, says her family stopped buying red meat five months ago. Chicken also has ...

Hashim said that the pensions have seen a large leap recently and improved the living conditions of the old people and lift them out of the poverty category. Waleed Gab-Allah, professor of economic ...