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Enas Hamed

Enas Hamed holds a BA in mass communication and a diploma in journalistic translation from the American University in Cairo. She has worked in the investigations department at the Shorouk newspaper and as a program editor for Al-Sharq al-Awsat radio. She currently heads the news team for Shorouk's website.

A man and his children ride on the back of a pick-up truck with their luggage as they flee Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa April 6, 2015. Foreign nationals were on their way out of Yemen on Monday (April 6) as 12 days of strikes by a Saudi-led coalition have failed to halt the advance of the Iran-allied Houthis and triggered a growing humanitarian crisis for residents in central districts now cut off from the mainland. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RTR4W8WJ

Egypt's ambassador to Yemen won't rule out ground troops

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A souvenirs vendor waits for tourists in front of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, December 9, 2014. Egypt's tourism revenues jumped 112 percent to about $2 billion in the third quarter of 2014, a tourism ministry official said, suggesting the key industry was showing signs of recovery, albeit from a particularly bad third quarter last year. Tourism, an important source of foreign currency, has been hammered since the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. REUTERS

Egypt imposes new restrictions on tourist visas

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Egypt's Finance Minister Hany Dimian (L-R), central bank governor Hisham Ramez, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and Planning Minister Ashraf al-Arabi attend the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, in the South Sinai governorate, south of Cairo, March 14, 2015. Gulf Arab allies pledged a further $12 billion of investments and central bank deposits for Egypt at an international summit on Friday, a big boost to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he tries to reform the economy after ye

Egypt's election delay leaves foreign investors uncertain

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Chairman of the Masr El Kaweya (Strong Egypt) party, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, speaks during a news conference in Cairo February 4, 2015. The party announced on Wednesday that they will boycott the upcoming long-awaited parliamentary elections. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR4O796

Aboul Fotouh: Egyptians will start revolution if dictatorship persists

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Egyptian security personnel check cars at a checkpoint near the site, where separate attacks on security forces in North Sinai on Thursday killed 30 people, in Arish, North Sinai, Egypt, January 31, 2015. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt faces a long, hard battle against militancy, days after one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in years. On Thursday night, four separate attacks on security forces in North Sinai were among the worst in the country in years. Islamic Stat

Egypt’s terrorism law whittles down opposition

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A trader works at the Egyptian stock exchange in Cairo November 19, 2014. The Egyptian pound was flat at a central bank dollar sale on Wednesday but weakened significantly on the black market as Egypt's plans to repay a $2.5 billion Qatari deposit raised concerns of a looming dollar shortage, traders said. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR4EQ4F

Egyptian pound's drop part of Central Bank's plan

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Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif (L) walks with his son outside of a court after his trial was delayed, in the outskirts of Cairo, December 29, 2014. Nazif is facing a retrial as he was convicted of a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTR4JJQM

Egypt’s revolutions have not stopped corruption

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Suez Canal Authority Chairman Lieutenant General Mohab Mamish (2nd R) walks with a UAE delegation during a ceremony marking the start of dredging works on the New Suez Canal Project near the Suez Canal in Ismailia city November 13, 2014. The project is led by the National Marine Dredging Company of the Emirates in collaboration with the Suez Canal Authority. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT MARITIME) - RTR4E2KF

As Gulf aid dries up, Egypt struggles

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A Nubian boy rides a camel at the Nile river bank in Aswan, some 1200 km (746 miles) south of Cairo, March 25, 2007. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (EGYPT) - RTR1NWNI

Will Nubian demands for return become calls for secession?

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Activists, accused of working for unlicensed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and receiving illegal foreign funds, stand in a cage during the opening of their trial in Cairo March 8, 2012. An Egyptian judge said on Thursday he was delaying until April 10 the trial of civil society activists including 16 Americans accused of receiving illegal foreign funds and pursuing their pro-democracy activities without a licence. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTR2Z1

Egyptian activists fear new penalties for foreign funding

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Egyptian citizens walk on a main street in central Cairo June 20, 2008. Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt's latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support. To match feature EGYPT-POPULATION/ REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT) - RTX7JKV

Egyptian official: Poverty main cause of overpopulation

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Egypt scrambles to stop missiles launched at Israel from Sinai

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