Taking the temperature on a journey through Egypt – in pictures

Traffic flows in the late afternoon of Saturday 6 July on the highway out of Cairo
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Billboards line the exit road leading to the Alexandria highway just outside Cairo
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

A man sells posters of General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi in a crowded market area of Alexandria
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Another poster-seller in Alexandria
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Khaled e-Qadi poses next to a poster of General Sisi before the start of a rally supporting the defence minister in Alexandria on Monday 8 July
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

People chant while holding posters of General Sisi during the rally in Alexandria
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

A woman touches a poster of General Sisi during the opposition rally in Alexandria
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

A woman crosses a street guarded by the Egyptian army in a closed area where the rally was held on Monday
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Giant inflatables bearing signs in Arabic and English that say "Revolution. Not a coup" in Port Said
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux/for the Guardian

A closeup of the inflatables in Port Said
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux/for the Guardian

Men pray in a mosque in Port Said
Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux/for the Guardian

Muhammad, a tour guide, walks through Habu Temple in Luxor Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Habu Temple is empty of tourists Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Habu Temple is empty of tourists, in Luxor Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

Muhammad, a tour guide, at Habu Temple in Luxor Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux for the Guardian

A carriage driver waits for tourists across the street from Luxor Temple Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

Graffiti on the walls of a school in Luxor celebrates the protesters who died during Egypt's uprising Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

Apartment blocks next to the highway in Cairo. Millions of residents of this mega-city live packed together in such buildings Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

Hosny Omar, secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party for Damanhour, in his home Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

The home of a Muslim Brotherhood leader was looted and burned the previous Friday in Damanhour Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

The highway is practically empty as the end of the first day of Ramadan, near Benha, Nile Delta Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

A man eats "iftar" at sunset at a roadside Ramadan table in the Nile Delta Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

Young women prepare dough for sweets called 'qatayef' specially prepared for Ramadan, in Damanhour Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux

People line up for sweets called 'qatayef' specially prepared for Ramadan, in Damanhour Photograph: Holly Pickett/Redux