Shawn Baldwin

Egypt

A man sells popcorn from a cart during a moulid in Tanta, Egypt. Every year following the October cotton harvest the Tanta moulid, a religious festival, is held to celebrate the memory of Ahmed al-Bedawi, a local 13th Century Sufi saint. The Tanta moulid, is the largest one held in Egypt attracting at least tens of thousands of people from around the country. October 2008.
   
Hawkers sell cotton candy on the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt. November 2007.
   
Customers look through a window while waiting to buy bread at a small bread factory in a poor neighborhood in Cairo. June 2008.
     
  
A young girl looks on as hundreds of people search for survivors after a rockslide hit a Cairo shanty town. Twenty people were killed and hundreds more missing when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses. September 2008.
   
Ahmed Mohamed Sayyid Mohamed prays prior to the main Friday prayer at the Sayyida Zeinab mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed prays before and after the main prayer for extra 'points'. November 2007.
   
Customers look on as a worker pours sugar cane juice at the Saad Afifi Sons - Sugarcane Juice shop in Cairo, Egypt. The juice made from sugar cane sells for less than 10 cents each. May 2007.
     
  
Brides and grooms prior to a ceremony at the mass wedding in Idku. November 2007.
   
Newlyweds celebrated their marriage as friends and relatives danced on a bridge over the Nile in Cairo. November 2007.
   
A shepherd keeps watch over his flock on a busy street in Cairo. Cairo is home to 15 million and often described as the center of the Arab world, an incubator of culture and ideas. But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other. January 2007.
     
  
Fishermen ply their trade on the Nile in Cairo. Cairo is home to 15 million and often described as the center of the Arab world, an incubator of culture and ideas. But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other. January 2007.
   
An Egyptian woman leaves a voting booth at a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian police restricted voting in areas contested by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday and detained hundreds of Islamists trying to build on early success in parliamentary elections. November 2005.
   
Egyptian women hold a poster of Makarem el-Dairi, left, a 55-year old widow and holder of a PH.D. in Arabic literature and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who is running as an independent for a seat in parliament, during a march/rally in Cairo. Makarem has just become the only woman in Egypt's election campaign to run under the banner of the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned group that says woman's place is first and foremost in the home. November 2005.
     
  
Activists, bloggers and members of the 6th of April movement put together material that will be used on an anti-NDP website in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling National Democratic Party is holding its annual party conference this weekend and activists, bloggers and some members of the 6th of April movement are putting out a 'virtual conference' on a website (www.anti-ndp.com) to coincide with the meeting. 2nd from left is Muhammad Abdel Aziz, 22-years-old. October 2008.
   
Sudanese refugees remove rainwater from a tarp into a bucket inside of their makeshift camp/protest in central Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of Sudanese have been camped outside U.N. offices in Cairo for more than two months to protest against any moves to send them home. December 2005.
   
View of the pyramids in Giza on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. U.S. President Obama is expected to deliver a speech at Cairo University during a visit to Egypt on June 4. May 2009.