A baker stacks loaves of Egyptian traditional “baladi” flatbread outside a bakery, in the Old Cairo district of Cairo, Egypt, September 8, 2022. For decades, millions of Egyptians have depended on the government to keep basic goods affordable. But a series of shocks to the global economy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have endangered the social contract in the Middle East's most populous country, which is also the world's biggest importer of wheat. It is now grappling with double-digit inflation and a steep devaluation of its currency. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





Farm workers collect dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. Egypt is the world’s top date supplier, producing nearly 18 percent of the world’s dates, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





A farm worker collects dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





A farm worker climbs a palm tree to pick dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





A farm worker shows collected dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





A farm worker climbs a palm tree to pick dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





Farm workers sort dates during the annual harvest season at Dahshur, south Giza governorate, Egypt, 21 September 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





Crabs climb mangroves at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt's southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly-planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of only a few hundred football pitches. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





The Black Granite sarcophagus of King Psusennes I on display at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, 27 September 2022. Egypt has opened its museums and archaeological sites for free visits on the occasion of World Tourism Day and the 200th anniversary of Egyptology. The United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) celebrates World Tourism Day since 1980 with this year's theme being 'Rethinking Tourism' aimed at putting people at the center of key discussions on where Tourism was going. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





Ukrainian blogger Yana, watches a ancient wooden Pharaonic sarcophagus at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, September 27, 2022, during a celebration in honor of World Tourism day, and Egyptology's 200th anniversary as a science. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





A picture taken on September 29, 2022 shows plastic and garbage floating on the bank of Nile River in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Pupils attend the first day at school, as the new academic year starts at Notre Dame school in Cairo, Egypt, 01 October 2022. Egypt's Ministry of Education announced that the new academic school year start on 01 October. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





Pupils attend the first day at school, as the new academic year starts at Notre Dame school in Cairo, Egypt, 01 October 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





An egret flies while others walk and stand on rubbish floating in a water canal at Dahshur village at the north of Giza, Egypt on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





Egyptians buy Halawet el-Mawlid (candy) for the upcoming Mawlid celebrations (The birthday of Prophet Muhammad), at a local market in Sayeda Zienab district, in Cairo, Egypt, 05 October 2022. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





An Egyptian woman carries a candy doll for the upcoming Mawlid celebrations (The birthday of Prophet Muhammad), at a local market in Sayeda Zienab district, in Cairo, Egypt, 05 October 2022. Prophet Muhammad's birthday will be marked on 08 October this year. The decoration of candy dolls for this occasion is believed to date back to the time of the Fatimid dynasty's (909–1171) rule in Egypt. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





Ali al-Saeed, a 51-year-old Egyptian teacher, sits next to the charging cable of his 1985 Fiat-127 after turning the car into an electric one to save fuel amid rising prices, resorting to a more environmental-friendly mode of transportation, in Cairo, Egypt on October 12, 2022. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A tourist pets a cat before the “Horus protects Ramses II as a child”, dating to the reign of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom pharaoh (1303-1213 BC), at the Egyptian Museum in the centre of Egypt's capital Cairo on October 19, 2022. (Photo by Amir Makar/AFP Photo)





Fisherman Mohamed Nasar, 59, uses his boat to collect plastic garbage from the Nile river for The VeryNile NGO, three generations of Nassar's family are taking part in the environment friendly initiative in Giza, Egypt on October 19, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





People use special protective glasses to observe and watch a partial solar eclipse by in Cairo, Egypt on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)