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Safaa Saleh

Safaa Saleh is a Cairo-based, award-winning investigative journalist. In 2010, Saleh won the Samir Kassir Award for the Freedom of the Press. In 2011, she also won the Nawal Omar Award for best journalistic article. She was also the recipient of the 2010 Syndicate of Journalists Award in the category of women journalism.

A woman wearing a sign on her head that reads "No Harassment" takes part in a protest against Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood and in support of women rights in the constitution in front of the presidential palace in Cairo October 4, 2012. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR38T3N

Egyptian women scared to speak out against sexual harassment

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The burnt and destroyed Evangelical Church are seen in Mallawi at Minya governorate, about 245 km (152 miles) south of Cairo August 17, 2013. Egypt's Coptic Christians, who make up 10 percent of its 85 million people, have coexisted with the majority Sunni Muslims for centuries. Violence erupted periodically, especially in the impoverished south, but the attacks on churches and Christian properties in the last week are the worst in years. Picture taken August 17, 2013. To match INSIGHT EGYPT-PROTESTS/CHURC

Egypt's Minya province flashpoint for Muslim-Christian violence

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A plainclothes policeman shouts after an explosion, which was followed by two further blasts, in front of Cairo University April 2, 2014. A series of explosions outside Cairo University killed two people on Wednesday, including a police brigadier-general, security officials said, in what appeared to be the latest militant attack in a fast-growing insurgency. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3JNLM

Terrorism expands from Sinai to Cairo

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