In the middle of Mostafa Mahmoud Square, one of Giza’s busiest, Afifi, a 27-year-old taxi driver, was shouting his lungs out: “Stop! Come join us, we are defending your rights.”
On Feb. 4, Afifi, who asked that his last name not be used, was one of the few taxi drivers who responded to an anonymous call circulated on Facebook to protest the existence of “unfair competitors.”