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Tag: Lauren Unger-geoffroy

AP/Khalil Hamra

Dispatches From Cairo: Bragging About Gang Rape

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

He couldn’t have been more than 19. His clothes were cheap and his sparse yet unshaven facial hair was indistinguishable from the dirt on his cheeks. He was with another kid on the other side of a kiosk and couldn’t see that I was listening.

Posted on Feb 11, 2013 READ MORE

AP/Hatem Moussa

Dispatches From Cairo: All Children Go to Heaven

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

“Is this the work of a God-fearing people?” screamed our neighborhood imam over the loudspeakers during Friday’s passionate sermon. The innate hostility in regard to Israel tilts toward hatred.

Posted on Nov 20, 2012 READ MORE

AP/Enric Marti

Dispatches From Cairo: Brother, Can You Spare a Breeze?

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

Rolling blackouts turn up the heat and turn off the lights; on the political front, Morsi feels heat of a different sort.

Posted on Aug 7, 2012 READ MORE

AP/Brendan Smialowski

Dispatches From Cairo: Clinton’s Clumsy Visit

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

The top U.S. diplomat wooed Egypt’s new government but wowed very few among a proud people determined to find their own way as a democracy.

Posted on Jul 18, 2012 READ MORE

AP/Fredrik Persson

Dispatches From Cairo: New President, New Hope

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

As the days pass, Egyptians seem more and more relaxed, and there is an emerging hope that displays itself in voices less strident, faces less stressed, more smiling, despite the stifling heat. Perhaps the storms of the Arab Spring have finished and now will come the flowering.

Posted on Jun 28, 2012 READ MORE

AP/Fredrik Persson

Dispatches From Cairo: Testing Democracy

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

Here in Cairo every conversation turns to this week’s presidential election, hopefully the first true democratic election in the country’s history.

Posted on May 22, 2012 READ MORE | 6 COMMENTS

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Dispatches From Cairo: Sand and Political Excitement Fill the Air as Election Nears

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

One month before Egypt’s presidential vote, 100,000 or more Islamists and liberals of all parties packed Tahrir Square to join in support of Egypt’s revolution.

Posted on Apr 21, 2012 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

AP/Amr Nabil

Dispatches From Cairo: Fuel for the Fire

By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy —

Those who can have chosen to selectively forget the worst of recent memories, but most sense a new wave of conflict, gathering at a distance and surging toward them.