was not a tourist. What led me to Egypt with my girlfriend Samia Nassar was the wave of strikes since December 2005, has shaken the regime of Hosni Mubarak. In 2007 there were 580 strikes, demonstrations and protests, involving between 300,000 and 500,000 workers. It is likely that the 2008 figures are more than double, reflecting the huge increase in food prices. We spent three days without stopping to chat in the morning to evening with representatives of political parties and unions. A name appeared over and over again: Mahalla al-Kobra, the textile city, the epicenter of the new labor movement
Translation: Lucas Antón
Challenge, CSCA (translation)
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