CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian Ghassan el-Shahada enjoyed tolerance and an affordable life when he first fled to Egypt as a refugee. But everything changed after the army took over in July.
Where once they were welcomed as brothers, Syrian refugees are now taunted in Cairo's streets - an open hostility fuelled by a media campaign that casts them as "terrorists" allied with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and former president Mohamed Mursi, who was overthrown by the army on July 3.
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