I arrived in Cairo in the first week of February, shortly after I had finished with my undergraduate school in Vienna, Austria. I was looking for a working experience that was relevant to my studies, and, luckily, found a research internship at an NGO, Center for Arab West Understanding. I was, of course, well aware of the recent happenings in Egypt and was a little apprehensive about going there at such a time, but the idea of conducting interviews with Egyptians and working on my own project in the largest metropolitan city in Middle East and Africa kept those worries away from me.

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