A desert guide works under tremendous pressure. Someone can get a scorpion bite or a snakebite, twist an ankle, be overcome by heat or simply panic
The police were looking for five cars along a lonely stretch of desert road and, well, here were five cars. The license plates did not match the ones they were looking for, but there were five cars -- so the police detained the convoy.

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Many entrepreneurs feel regulations still bar their way. Bankruptcy, for example, is still considered a criminal offense in Egypt
Khaled Awad is a risk taker. A doctor by training, he decided at age 26 to give up a secure position in one of Egypt's state-run hospitals to do something considered crazy by most of his countrymen -- start his own business.

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The land of the Nile is seeing a rising tide of protests at a shortage of drinking water amid accusations the government would rather irrigate golf courses than slake the thirst of villages.

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