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Dina Zayed

Dina Zayed holds a Masters in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. She is a former Cairo-based Reuters correspondent.

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The Campaign Against Coal in Egypt

A campaign opposing coal imports would seem unlikely to attract much attention given the political upheavals and deepening social polarization that Egyptians have witnessed over the past three years. Yet since 2012, a loose coalition of environmental and human rights activists, government officials

Dina Zayed, Jeannie Sowers • 17 min read