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 ...

Egyptian bread is life The Egyptian dialect of Arabic has a word that can be used for both “bread” and “life”: aish. Following World War II, the Egyptian state subsidized household staples like bread ...

His namesake dish, the one that got him started on this pandemic journey, is a round pocket of minced meat and vegetables pressed into a pita-like bread (called aish baladi) that’s best when ...

T HE LAST time Egypt raised bread prices, the Soviet Union was still intact. Since 1989 subsidised bakeries have offered 20 loaves of aish baladi, a glutinous pita that is a staple, for one ...

Subsidy card holders receive an allowance of five flat, round 'baladi' bread loaves per day per family member per loaf. The price was increased from 0.05 Egyptian pounds ($0.0011) to 0.20 pounds ...

That in egyptian Arabic the word for bread, aish, is the same as the word for life stresses the foodstuff’s importance in the country. Nearly two-thirds of Egypt’s 106m-strong population rely ...