A single day on Alexandria’s beaches consumes a third of a government employee’s monthly salary, while Egyptian families resort to Al-Qanater as a substitute for the sea, and others cancel their summer holidays entirely.
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Egypt’s public business sector workforce fell 30% in eight years, from 827,000 in 2017 to 586,000 in 2025, amid a near-total hiring freeze, company liquidations, and mass dismissals under the drug-testing law
Between 2021 and 2025, Egypt expropriated 88,769 feddans across 525 projects affecting 546,000 citizens, under a law that leaves public interest undefined, unchallengeable, and compensation calculated at outdated prices.
The defense team’s request to impose a publication ban in the Sally Al-Jabbas case has reignited a legal debate: while law and constitution make such bans an exception restricted by clear justifications, publication ban orders have historically been issued in corruption and police crime cases without stated reasoning or any avenue for challenge — and bans silence journalists while rumors spread unchecked across social media platforms
159,825 students are enrolled in Egypt’s inclusive education system, amid family testimonies revealing closed resource rooms, untrained teachers, and bullying that turns the word “inclusion” into a tool for mockery, while medical boards assign children with normal IQ levels to the system, and the quality of available education is tied to a family’s financial means rather than a legally guaranteed right.
One worker died and seven were injured from heat stress at a solar energy project in Aswan in a single day, under a ministerial safety decree issued in 2003 that has not been updated in more than two decades, while local decisions ban sanitation workers from working during peak hours without the protection extending to desert workers who are the most severely affected.
