It is mid-morning but the machines are silent in Ahmed Zeidan’s cavernous metal workshop in Shobra al-Kheima, a sprawling, traffic-congested industrial area north of Cairo.
Before the revolution, his workshop specialising in lathing metal parts for machines in nearby textile factories did a roaring business, he said. These days, however, Mr Zeidan whiles away the time drinking tea and watching television at his counter.
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