As Ramadan ended and Eid celebrations kicked off in Egypt’s capital at the end of March, a group of Yemenis gathered on a Nile felucca — a wooden sailing boat typically encountered across the Mediterranean — for revelry and respite from their troubles.
They are just a fraction of the estimated 600,000 Yemeni citizens now resident in Cairo. Before war in their home country broke out in March 2015, that number stood at just 70,000.
