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The Cairo Report is an independent, English-language socialist publication covering Egypt: politics, labor, policy, and the structures that shape everyday life.

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Latest Issues

Egypt, The New Republic: Workers fight for wages, safety & justice

This issue of The Cairo Report covers the liquidation of intelligence-owned El-Fagr, whose journalists are demanding the syndicate step in to protect their unpaid wages and employment rights; arbitrarily dismissed EgyptKE journalists suing...

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The New Republic’s ‘Golden age for women’ & its ledger

Egypt’s austerity is a feature as old as Mohamed Anwar Sadat’s economic Open Door Policy, known as al-Infitah, but it has deepened over the past decade with four International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans since 2016. Each loan demanded the sam...

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What we’re reading: Chinese robots, Assad’s death sentence, Egyptian political prisoners’ families & more

This issue of What We’re Reading covers the spectacle of the Premier League’s vast and opaque transfer spending, China’s flashy humanoid-robot propaganda, and Kim Jong-un parlaying North Korea’s shells, troops, and nuclear arsenal into leve...

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Alexandria’s demolished shops & the broken promise of return

Demolished shops in al-Masajid Square on January 27, 2025, via Ahmed Khalifa’s Facebook.

As the sun rises over the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a group of middle-aged men, all of them former shop owners, get ready to leave their homes...

17 days ago
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Egypt, The New Republic: Minimum wage violations, factory safety failures & pension poverty

This issue of The Cairo Report examines how Egypt’s industrial policy continues to subsidize and de-risk private investment while workers carry the costs of low wages, insecure contracts, unsafe workplaces and an eroding pension system. T&C...

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    Just a girl from Cairo. Muslim, socialist, journalist, editor, and student (always).

  • Saher

    Writing on the politics of labor and policymaking

  • Ahmed K. Etman

    Marxist, Engineering Consultant, and Energy Justice & Democracy Researcher.

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    Writings of a socialist twenty-something year old trying to make sense of this world…

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