Out in Egypt's desert, the end of a long shift at the stiflingly hot Cleopatra Ceramics factory comes as a welcome relief for the labourers fasting for Ramadan.
The employees have reluctantly returned to work after weeks of strikes demanding overdue wages and compensation promised months earlier.
Instead, the workers' face-off with the owner of the factory has come to epitomise the struggle that defined the beginning of the revolution in January last year when thousands broke away from the regime's stranglehold to call for better social justice and welfare.
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