After a punch split his lip and sent blood trickling down his chin, Mustafa Badawi whipped out a knife and slashed at his opponent.
The glint of the blade and the yells from the narrow street of a Cairo slum drew dozens to the brawl, their feet kicking up dust as they rushed to stop a dispute over a debt of about $8 from escalating into murder.
“Where am I supposed to get the money from?” Badawi cried as he was wrestled to the ground. The funds had been borrowed to buy food and repay other debts from a neighbor. “If you want your money, then take it in blood. That’s all I have.” Behind him, candidates from Egypt’s presidential election gazed out from campaign posters lining the street.
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