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Bishoy Kamel Talaat looks into the camera. He weres his workers uniform in bright yellow and a blue security hat. Behind him you can see the ocean and the silhouette of the Canal.

Bishoy Kamel Talaat

Harbour worker

Bishoy Kamel Talaat, born in 1996 in Port Fuad, a city located on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, where the canal meets the Mediterranean, works at the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt. He balances his time between his work at the Suez port and his life in Cairo, where he works as a salesman in a jewelry shop.

Contributions by Bishoy Kamel Talaat