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Hamid Khalil, 46, sits near a portrait of his late wife, Amal al Dusouqi, 43, in their apartment in Mahalet Damana, 135 kilometers north of Cairo. Khalil's wife 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, sits near a portrait of his late wife, Amal al Dusouqi, 43, in their apartment in Mahalet Damana, 135 kilometers north of Cairo. Khalil's wife 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.