Getting Egypt Back on its Feet

Surrounded by shelf upon shelf of Perspex perfume bottles, all crafted into an array of voluptuous designs and gilded by gold and silver paintwork, fragrance-seller Mohammad explained what he thought of the activists who battled the security services for much of the past six weeks. “These people are thugs,” he said, from the back room of his store in Khan al-Khalili, the area of old Cairo usually crammed with tourists hunting for take-home trinkets. “We had the revolution, bu...

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