🇬🇧Four years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, opening one of the deadliest and most destabilizing conflicts in Europe since the Second World War. That day, I was not in Kyiv, nor in Paris. I was in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the mountains around Shusha, at the heart of another conflict, the one between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The clash of weapons was not a media abstraction: it echoed in the stone, in the icy air, in the tense silences of the fighters.

Cairo does not reveal itself all at once. It is crossed. It collides. It is listened to. Traveling to Egypt is often a childhood dream; we grow up with images of pyramids and pharaohs, of films and books filled with incredible adventures — Agatha Christie and Death on the Nile, the river cruise, the visit to magnificent temples. And it is true: the archaeological sites are breathtaking in their beauty and majesty.

Au Caire, loin des sites touristiques, une réalité plus sombre s'impose; celle de la condition des enfants des rues, entre travail et prostitution forcée, misère, et accidents domestiques...