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The palm trees around us were heavenly, reflecting into the shiny water.

My friends and I were slumbering in the fresh, late afternoon breeze in a small village just north of the Nile Delta, deep in the Egyptian county of Bihira, where my mum was raised.

This was all untouched beauty. Greenery, lakes, vast fields, cockroaches, frogs, cattle.

It was picturesque. Fishing here was incredibly easy for an amateur like me. We caught one fish

after another. We even used flour as bait,

and still, we ran out. Keen to get a little more done before sunset, we decided to search

for a local who might be able to spare some flour. Around 5 million of Bahra's 6 million residents

live in rural, non-urbanized areas.

One in three women in Egypt remain illiterate and one in five men, the majority in these rural

settings.

We made our way to a little hut come cottage in the distance where a woman greeted us, a big

woman, wearing a colourful bandana and a fluttering dress.

She loudly insisted that we join her family for food. We weren't keen on making them put extra

food on the table, but had no choice once she called for her husband, big moustache and

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