What Happens When Your Name Isn't Really Yours?
In August 2026, Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) acknowledged what thousands of citizens were already discovering on their own: mobile phone lines had been registered under their national ID numbers without their knowledge. The authority's response followed the case of Amr Emara, a university student from Sharqia Governorate, who said he had been sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison on drug-trafficking charges after a mobile line registered in his name surfa
