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Amal Sabri

Amal Sabri is director of the environment and development program of the Association for Health and Environmental Development, an Egyptian NGO.

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Mining for Fish

Around 10,000 of the estimated million people employed  in Egypt’s ﬁshing sector are based in ‘Izbat al-Burg, situated at the northernmost tip of the Nile’s Damietta Branch and bordered on the east by the vast Lake Manzala. As recently as nine years ago, Lake Manzala was a major ﬁshing area and a co

Amal Sabri, Ray Bush • 12 min read