Word: mahalla
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...detained, also captured were Reuters photographer Nasser Nouri, journalist Amina Abdel Rahman, and a convoy of journalists, doctors and lawyers who had been trying to enter Mahalla...
...project in journalism. My last trip, in April 2008, finally brought me to the story I had been chasing: the biggest civil uprising against Egypt’s military government in three decades. Taking photos in the strike’s epicenter, the industrial city of Mahalla, I was kidnapped by the police on Apr. 10. My translator, trying to help me get away, was nabbed as well...
...Hundreds have disappeared from the streets of Mahalla. Three times as many have been detained elsewhere around Egypt in recent months. President Hosni Mubarak turned 80 on May 4th, and his grip on the country seems increasingly desperate...
...Mohammed is a victim of circumstance. His city of Mahalla is an industrial town, a poor, blue-collar city home to large factories that pay small salaries. Still, factory workers make more than most. Open rebellion carries a high cost in Egypt, and Mohammed saw it happen to his neighbors. Nevertheless, he ran towards the conflict, not away...