By Alice Tegle, correspondent, EgyptianStreets.com With Egypt on curfew, daily routines can quickly into dangerous encounters. A packet of biscuits nearly killed 24-year-old Amin Abu Hashem. “Well…Today I was shot at”, said Amin Abu Hashem to Egyptian Streets during the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Friday of rage”. He is on the phone from his house in El-Nahda square where weeks of violence between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military culminated in Wednesday´s bloodshed. At least 87 people were killed meters from his apartment. “A guy was behind a shed the workers use for coffee breaks. Suddenly I heard the sound of a shotgun,” said Amin before momentarily pausing. “I dodged the bullet, felt it fly by and I hurried back inside.” The sound of gunfire has filled the streets of Cairo the past two days. Amin had watched the sit-ins evolve from his window before they were dispersed by security forces on August 14. “I was annoyed, but I thought it was their right to protest,” said Amin. “The past two weeks I have seen them opening fire against anyone and anything, including themselves…And when that guy fired a shot at me today, I got…
