African refugees can find affordable apartments on Hassanin Desouki street. However, both the Sudanese and long-time Cairo residents face culture shock when dealing with each other. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Motasim, a worker at the Sudanese restaurant El Gharb, says, "We offer a big meal for four persons, just for $2, but for free for those who cannot afford it". (H. Elrasam/VOA)
El Gharb is a Sudanese restaurant in Giza. It is as a hub for newcomers seeking asylum, and workers at the restaurant can help them find affordable accommodation. Sometimes the restaurant gives food to those who cannot pay for it. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Tahani Gassim, a physiologist who works with African refugees is a Nubian from Sudan says, "African refugees face too much discrimination, even me. Average Egyptians do not know much about our culture and where we came from." (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Egyptian children tease El-Hadi, a Sudanese refugee from Khartoum, while he reads his Bible. El-Hadi fled to Egypt to seek asylum. In Sudan, El-Hadi was tortured because of converting to Christianity. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Remaz, from Khartoum, is a diabetic whose husband left her and their three children and went back to Sudan after facing discrimination in Egypt. She says, "I cannot work because of my poor health, and we live on charity money coming from mosques."
Sudanese children play in their house. Many of them have been discriminated against by their Egyptian counterparts in the streets or other public spaces. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Eman, from the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan. Her husband left her and she says, "It is hard to find a proper job here. ... Life is expensive here; that is why I stopped sending my children to schools." In Cairo. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
African refugees waiting at Refugee Egypt, a cooperative organization with the U.N., during a job offering event in Zamalek, Cairo. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Bdallah Abkar, from Wad-Madani, Sudan, who fled because of the ongoing crises and is now in Cairo. He is a general manager of an educational center for refugees. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Some African refugee students during a school break in Cairo. Some Sudanese youngsters whose families cannot afford their education, leave school. Sometimes the children become involved in illegal behavior to make their living. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Omer Sheesh, from Port Sudan in Red Sea state, is an IT master student who came to Cairo for a scholarship. He says "lack of opportunities, in addition to the ongoing crises in Sudan, is what forces many to leave." (H. Elrasam/VOA)
A sign hangs on a window inside the Cairo house of Sudanese refugees with trending revolutionary hashtags that say in Arabic "Only step down, cities of Sudan revolts." (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Mohamed Abu Shanab, 32, and a Sudanese masters' student at the University of Al-Azhar who came from Halfa valley in Sudan, says "Marriage is becoming more of load on anyone. It costs a lot, and I barely can take care of my studying expenses." In Cairo.
A low-cost rooftop traditional wedding in "Aberdeen," a residential area where many Sudanese live in downtown Cairo. (H. Elrasam)
Manal Ahmed, who came from Omdurman because of the lack of the medical care in Sudan, says "I came here to get my son treatment in better hospitals, then I started this shop to sell herbs to help my family with living expenses." In Cairo. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
A barbershop in Hadayek El-Maadi, a neighborhood of Cairo where many African refugees find affordable housing and can start businesses that serve their community. Many African refugees start their businesses because they face discrimination in Egypt.
Alweya Osman Kebeda, former Health Minister of Sennar state in 2006 and a current SPLM front leader, left Sudan for Cairo. "I came here to Egypt after I had been detained for four months, then back in Sudan in 2012, I had been threatened to be killed."
Alweya Osman Kebeda, 61, who has been a social activist since 1978, is teaching a diverse group of Sudanese refugees about their rights and how to respect the new culture in which they find themselves in Cairo. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
Yasser Farag, an Egyptian lawyer, who spent his childhood in Khartoum, says, "The majority of the Egyptians almost know nothing about Sudan." So he teaches "Egyptians about Sudan, and Sudanese about the new culture they just came to." In Cairo.
A diverse group of Egyptians and Sudanese attend a conference at Yasser Farag's office in downtown Cairo. (H. Elrasam/VOA)
