Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

In Ezbet-el-Haggana, a slum on the outskirts of Cairo, residents struggle daily to ... Islamic organizations around Egypt -- particularly the Muslim Brotherhood -- have not. Social service ...

Egypt’s informal economy ... economics professor at Cairo University. “It grows in times of depression, while contracting or experiencing decelerated growth in [bullish] times.” ...

In southeastern Cairo, a city that's home to nearly 18 million ... state-built apartments or forcing the creation of alternate slums. Iraq-Canadian photographer Tamara Abdul Hadi recently visited ...

Egypt is home to 1,100 slum areas, 350 of which are in and around Cairo. In addition to their lack of basic facilities such as electricity, running water, and sewage, many of those slums are ...