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Poverty is high in Mahalet Damana, a small delta village 135 kilometers north of the capital, Cairo. Amal al Dusouqi, 43, died April 9, 2008, after being trampled in a subsidized bread line near her home in this village. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.

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Poverty is high in Mahalet Damana, a small delta village 135 kilometers north of the capital, Cairo. Amal al Dusouqi, 43, died April 9, 2008, after being trampled in a subsidized bread line near her home in this village. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.