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آية امان

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

A man offers money to buy bread at a bakery in Cairo March 17, 2013. The spectre of steep food price inflation driven by a weaker pound is of particular worry to President Mohamed Mursi as he grapples with spasms of unrest two years after the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and was itself partly driven by a sense of mounting economic hardship in a country long steeped in poverty. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS FOOD) - RTR3F42I

الأعباء الماليّة تعرقل محاولات الحكومة المصريّة تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعيّة وكسب تأييد الفقراء

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

An Egyptian farmer holds a handful of soil to show the dryness of the land due to drought in a farm formerly irrigated by the river Nile, in Al-Dakahlya, about 120 km (75 miles) from Cairo June 4, 2013. Ethiopia has not thought hard enough about the impact of its ambitious dam project along the Nile, Egypt said on Sunday, underlining how countries down stream are concerned about its impact on water supplies. The Egyptian presidency was citing the findings of a report put together by a panel of experts from

أربعة ملفات تثير التوتّر بين القاهرة والخرطوم بعد عزل مرسي

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Security guards look at the construction of Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K8

الخلاف على ملف مياه النيل يعوّق استعادة مصر علاقاتها بالدول الإفريقيّة

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Traders work at the Egyptian stock exchange in Cairo August 18, 2013. Egypt's stock market fell sharply on Sunday as it resumed trading after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown by the army-backed government on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Banks and the stock market reopened for the first time since Wednesday's carnage, with shares rapidly falling 2.5 percent. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS) - RTX12PJR

الاضطرابات السياسيّة تعصف بالاقتصاد المصري.. وخطّة حكوميّة بمساندة خليجيّة لإنقاذه

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi throw stones at riot police and army personnel during clashes near Rabaa Adawiya square in Cairo August 14, 2013. Egypt is in turmoil after security forces moved in to clear the protest camps of thousands of supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday, and violence spread around the country. Protesters clashed with police and troops who used bulldozers, teargas and live ammunition to clear two Cairo sit-ins. Egypt's health ministr

حظر التجوّل يطفئ أنوار القاهرة.. ويعرقل المسيرات الاحتجاجيّة

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH

Dead bodies of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, lie in a room in a field hospital at the Rabaa Adawiya mosque, where they were camping, in Cairo August 14, 2013. Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they cleared a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the reinstatement of Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

"المونيتور" يرصد ساعات الموت داخل مستشفى رابعة واقتحامها وحرق الجثث والمصابيين أحياء

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture