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Hard Talk: Egypt’s separation wall divides rich and poor

By Dr. Waheed Abdel Meguid

Justifying the coup, the revolution’s leaders said that a small number of citizens, less than half percent of population, monopolized the entire country’s wealth. At the time this percentage was equal to about 20,000 people. The same percentage (half a percent) is now equal to about 80,000 people, given the fact that the population has increased nearly four-fold.

However today’s elite minority, which lives behind within the walls of isolated housing compounds, has not reached that number, although the upper social class in Egypt is now bigger than what it was before 1952. It is more than half a percent, perhaps no less than three or four per cent.

Reuters recently reported on one of these compounds in Kattamia, Cairo, to demonstrate the contrast between the palaces and Lexus cars and the adjoining small rooms of service workers and gardeners where up to five are crowded in one room.

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