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Young Country
In Egypt a 60 per cent of the total population is below the age of 30.
Failed Protests
Since the coup in 2011 ten thousands of dissidents - especially young people - remain arrested.
No Perspectives
Almost a third of the young are jobless.
Ghost Towns
Since the resignation of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 remains of his visions of urbanisation can be found in several places – surrounded by nothing but the desert.
Halt
Employees of the state of Egypt - curators, interior designers, conservators and IT experts - severely suffer from standstill under the current political situation.
Arable area
Undiscovered treasures are threatened with destruction by farmers who intensively cultivate the land with diesel generated pumps.
No changes
Whatever radical changes happen at the top down below nothing really changes.
Dark Hours
Golden times are on hold. In 2010 a 14.7 Million tourists visited Egypt. Currently it is about a third of the 2010 figures.
Open Waters
Out of 260 Nile cruise ships between Luxor and Aswan only approximately a dozen still run.
Hard Future
70 per cent of 250 dive centers and more than 500 resorts gave up.
Hotel Industry
According to the Egyptian Hotel Association six hundred thousand out of nine hundred thousand hotel employees got unemployed during the last six years.
Old strength
The wish to return to old strength through an elite leader is strong but not new to this country. Some compare former president elected Mohammed Mursi to Echnaton current president Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi to Haremhab who freed Egypt from a theocratic state.
Regional Power
Since his coup in 2013 president and military general Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi follows his vision of an Egypt that plays a major role in the Middle East.