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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ahmeds' extended family in the Cairo apartment of Mamdouh Ahmed, 35 (glasses), and Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36 (brown headscarf), with a week's worth of food. (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Muslims gather to pray at Al Fath Mosque in central Cairo. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 120).
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  • Seen from the minaret of a mosque in Cairo, a teenage boy delivers bread. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 121).
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  • The old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt, as seen from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36, holding her baby Nancy, 8 months on the fourth floor balcony of their apartment in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36, makes mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of her fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, her brother and nephew sit on the balcony overlooking the narrow street. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Ahmed family of Cairo, Egypt, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 122).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed fries chicken in the tiny kitchen of her fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed watches her daughter Nancy, 8 months, crawl on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment as she chops spinach for dinner. Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In the tiny kitchen of Nadia Ahmed's fourth floor apartment a plate of chicken cools, enough for both women's families and a few friends. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 123).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed fries chicken in the tiny kitchen of her fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Fried chicken in the tiny kitchen of Nadia Ahmed's fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed's nephew 4-year-old Hussein, helps himself to food left on the kitchen table while his mother and Nadia prepare dinner for relatives and guests in their fourth-floor apartment, in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Cotton candy being sold in Cairo, Egypt (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
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  • Cow hooves and legs hanging outside a butcher shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Dried chili peppers and barrels of spices on the sidewalk in front of a spice shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A watermelon vendor outside a small supermarket in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A fruit stand in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A proud Cairo fruit-stand owner shows off his produce. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The pyramids of Giza seen through the dust, smoke and haze of Cairo Egypt from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) .
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Fruit choices in the produce department of a small Cairo supermarket, Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A refrigerator in a middle class home in Giza, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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