A lenient visa system and a sympathetic populist president have seen Syrian refugee numbers swell in Egypt as Syria’s neighbours reach their capacity. The main destinations for Syrian refugees are the bordering countries of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. In the last three months alone the number o...

More than six months have passed since Khalil Othman, 37, began looking for a job in Cairo to cover his family's expenses. Othman's family fled to Egypt from Syria after their house in Homs collapsed due to constant Syrian army shelling of the city. Khalil, a secondary school teacher in Syria...