Friday, June 6, 2008

Food crisis: A daily quest for bread in Cairo

Every day at 4 a.m., Hagg Abdel Wahab walks down a narrow path past a simple coffee and tea shop to his bakery.
For 40 years, this elderly man has donned a gray gallabeya robe smudged with white flour and baked thousands of small, round loaves of state-subsidized bread for the residents of the poor, densely packed Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0606/p04s05-wome.html

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