My Cupboard Is My Shop

A portrait of a hard working Egyptian man sitting on his stool in front of his cupboard of remnants and the other accoutrements of his mending trade. You can see his age and guess how long he has occupied this stool on the junction of Brazil Street and 26th July Street in Zamalek, Cairo.

In other news, 600 minors have been discovered in a government security camp in the south of the country accused of protesting against the government. Some have been held for eight months without trial. Twenty five homosexuals have been arrested in a bathhouse accused of debauchery and spreading HIV. An investigative journalist led this initiative for her TV programme and took photographs on her mobile phone of the semi-naked men being led to the police vans and, no doubt, their long detention before trial and sentence to hard labour. Three men have been detained for holding a conversation in English in the metro which included mention of the revolution. A citizen near them felt the need to report them to the authorities.