Egyptian school children make their way home after school in front of a banner with the photo of a parliamentary candidate,top center, and Arabic that reads, "running for the youth, together on the right path, Sayed Al-Minaay," on a street in Boulaq El Dakrour district of Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, October 8, 2015. Egypt's long-awaited parliamentary elections will start on Oct. 18-19, a hoped-for step toward democracy amid a harsh crackdown on dissent. The second stage of the staggered vote will take place on Nov. 22-23. Final results will be announced in early December. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





People enjoy the beach towards the end of summer vacation for schools at El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 2015. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





People play with a ball at the beach towards the end of summer vacation for schools, as a container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna, east of Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 2015. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A girl uses a public shower near the beach, towards the end of summer vacation for schools, at El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 2015. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





People are seen under election banners of parliamentary candidate Ahmed al-Khatib in Dokki district of Giza governorate, Egypt, September 30, 2015. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A general view of old buildings in Cairo, Egypt, October 7, 2015. When Abu Dhabi-run contractor Arabtec signed a deal with the Egyptian government for a high-profile housing project it was seen as a sign of the Gulf Arab state's support for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. But the project announced in March 2014 and a pillar of Sisi's election campaign, has stalled, possibly risking his reputation and highlighting Egypt's habit of promising grandiose ventures and then struggling to deliver. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A general view of old buildings in Cairo, Egypt, October 7, 2015. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A general view of old buildings in Cairo, Egypt, October 7, 2015. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A cleaner sweeps the ground near election posters for parliamentary candidates of Nour party Hossam Abdo and Mohammed Osama in the Imbaba district of Giza, Egypt, October 13, 2015. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A man drives a three-wheeled vehicle beneath election campaign banners in the Imbaba district of Giza, Egypt, October 13, 2015. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Security forces stand guard outside a school used as a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. Egypt's long-awaited parliamentary election got off to a slow start on Sunday, marking the final step in a process that was meant to restore democracy but which critics say has been undermined by state repression. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Security forces detain a young man who was holding an electoral advertisement outside a school used as a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Security forces stand guard while people arrive to cast their vote, outside a school used as a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





An electoral banner is seen at a fruit market in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





People walk past electoral banners on a wall on a street in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Electoral banners are seen on a street in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. Egyptians turned out in low numbers on Sunday to vote in the first phase of an election hailed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a milestone on the road to democracy but shunned by critics who say the new chamber will rubber stamp his decisions. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Police ask women to fold their flags before allowing them into a school used as voting centre in Alexandria, Egypt, October 18, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





An electoral banner is seen at a market, in Giza governorate, Egypt, October 19, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Egyptians take part in a rally to support a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary vote in Minya, Egypt on October 15, 2015. Egypt’s long-awaited election will be conducted in two stages covering the country’s 27 provinces. (Photo by Pan Chaoyue/Xinhua Press/Corbis)





An Egyptian man walks around a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday, October 25, 2015. Severe weather swept across the Middle East on Sunday, pounding Israel with baseball-sized hail, sending torrents of uncollected garbage through the streets of Beirut and killing six people in Egypt, five of whom were electrocuted by a fallen power cable. The cable from a tramway landed in streets flooded with water, electrocuting the five, senior health official Magdy Hegazy said. (Photo by Heba Khamis/AP Photo)





An Egyptian passenger sits on the locomotive of a train as it leaves Cairo train station in Egypt, Wednesday, October 14, 2015. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)