SECOND VILLAGE, Egypt -- In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypt's Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the village's ...

SECOND VILLAGE, Egypt -- In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypt's Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the village's ...

For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and the once ...

KAFR ZIADA, Egypt, April 30 (Reuters) - Egyptian farmers have begun to harvest their wheat without the coronavirus disruptions hitting other growers globally, and with a plea from President Abdel ...

MINYA, Egypt, April 15 (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist-led government must be dreaming if it expects a bumper wheat harvest over the next six weeks that will save the country billions of dollars in ...

SAMALOUT, Egypt, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Eman Essa's husband died and she took over running his farm in southern Egypt, she found herself guessing when the wheat crop needed ...

The family of 55-year-old Egyptian farmer Makhluf Abu Kassem, sit on his land as he plows and works, in Second Village, Qouta town, Fayoum, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Abu Kassem fears that a dam ...

SECOND VILLAGE, Egypt (AP) — In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypt’s Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the ...

SECOND VILLAGE, Egypt — In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypt’s Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the village’s ...