Amira isn’t her real name, though neither is the father on her daughter’s birth certificate.
The real man is a client of the Cairo prostitute, who used to sell clothes and then resorted to selling herself. He paid 600 Egyptian pounds ($84) for two hours of pleasure about a year ago after Amira’s life had taken another turn for the worse.
“I hope your life is better than mine,” she recalls whispering to the infant, her second child, as they left the hospital following a birth overseen by bribed medical staff.
While every country has tales of hardship and desperation, Amira, 29, encapsulates the disappointment of her countrymen whose lives instead went further into decline after the euphoria of Egypt’s revolution had captivated the world.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...charts-egyptian-slide-toward-desperation.html
The real man is a client of the Cairo prostitute, who used to sell clothes and then resorted to selling herself. He paid 600 Egyptian pounds ($84) for two hours of pleasure about a year ago after Amira’s life had taken another turn for the worse.
“I hope your life is better than mine,” she recalls whispering to the infant, her second child, as they left the hospital following a birth overseen by bribed medical staff.
While every country has tales of hardship and desperation, Amira, 29, encapsulates the disappointment of her countrymen whose lives instead went further into decline after the euphoria of Egypt’s revolution had captivated the world.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...charts-egyptian-slide-toward-desperation.html
