“All I need is to find work in order to survive. Can you find me work?” These are the first words of Nabila, a 42 year old widow, originally from the city of Homs in Syria. She came to Egypt by air via Beirut with her 20 year old son and 17 year old daughter in February 2013. “Back home in Syr...

Even the memory of the pain that he lived through on 5 December 2013 is enough to distort the smiling face of Jean-Pierre Natoua. Hit by poliomyelitis as a child, he bears a serious, aching limp, requiring calm, unhurried motions. That night, however, Jean-Pierre was obliged to run, bearing the pain...