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Hamid Khalil, 46, stands outside his apartment in Mahalet Damana, 135 kilometers north of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Khalil's wife, Amal al Dusouqi, died April 9, 2008, after being trampled in a subsidized bread line stampede near her home. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.

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Hamid Khalil, 46, stands outside his apartment in Mahalet Damana, 135 kilometers north of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Khalil's wife, Amal al Dusouqi, died April 9, 2008, after being trampled in a subsidized bread line stampede near her home. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.