Wastewater, salinity, parasites and fishing pressures complicate Lake Qarun’s recovery. Researchers explain why cleaning the lake and releasing young fish cannot succeed without controlling pollution at its source.
From postponing furniture and appliances to considering second-hand purchases and instalments, young Egyptians describe how rising prices are changing the way they build a home together.
Families in Matrouh face long waits, weekly journeys to Alexandria and out-of-pocket medicine costs as reliable local blood-disorders care remains out of reach.
Egypt’s higher government wage floor leaves unanswered questions about living costs, private-sector pay and workers beyond effective protection.
Sudden mass fish deaths at Lake Manzala and Diba Triangle farms leave owners facing multimillion-pound losses, amid questions about pollution and environmental change and calls for investigation and compensation.
Egypt has inventoried 136 Nile Corniche plots for investors, raising questions over how land is reallocated, who funds preparation, and who benefits from rising values.
Egypt’s Economic Court upheld a six-month prison sentence and 100,000-pound fine against mahraganat singer Islam Kabonga for song lyrics, after the same content had already been punished by the Musicians Syndicate, under an article designed for privacy violations that parliament has never defined
Six journalists whose lawyers and families have not known their whereabouts since the evening of September 28, a single security statement that produced within forty-eight hours a media narrative appearing to share uniform vocabulary, leaked phone calls, and a detention report that the prosecution never issued.
Issue 23 of Deleted Lines documents September 2026
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