Ten loaves of baladi bread, aish baladi, sat on the kitchen shelf, their round and bran-speckled faces looking upwards. Three were heated quickly on the flame of the stove such that they “barely ...

CAIRO—For decades, vendors sold subsidized Egyptian baladi bread for almost nothing in Al-Sayeda Zeinab market, a bustling hub for this city’s working class. One day last month, there was ...

CAIRO, June 5 (Reuters) - Egypt's government has raised the price of its most widely consumed subsidised bread for the first time in decades. Here are some facts about Egypt's bread consumption ...