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President or Preacher?
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi.Source: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images It has not been a good week for Egypt’s president, Mohamed Mursi. Nationwide protests against his rule marked the second...
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Under the Weight of Censorship
The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images “When are they going to fire you?” Hani Shukrallah was asked by his...
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Copts’ Uneasy State Relations
Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II (L) leads the Coptic Christmas midnight mass at the Al-Abasseya Cathedral in Cairo on January 6, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images “The...
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Egypt Conspires Against Itself
One of the fourteen Egyptian NGO workers accused of receiving illegal foreign funding stands inside a cage during the trial in Cairo on February 26, 2012. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages The Arab world,...
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The Egyptian Cousins’ War
Vintage color lithograph from 1864 showing the Duke of Somerset accusing the Duke of York of treason before an invalid King Henry VI. Getty Images Mohamed Mursi was simultaneously Egypt’s first...
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Egypt’s Need for Common Sense
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi spray slogans on a wall during a march through the Nasr City district on the second day of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday on August 9, 2013 in Cairo,...
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Islamist Infighting
Supporters of the Salafist Al-Nour Party watch a speech given by popular Salafi religious leader Mohamed Hassan in Cairo, Egypt, on October 14, 2011. (David Degner/Getty Images)On one warm Cairo...
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Sadat’s Example for Egypt
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat attends the successful conclusion of the Sinai II negotiations in 1975 in Alexandria, Egypt. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)There is a well-known joke in Egypt that...
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Constitution Conundrum
Egypt’s 50-member constitution-drafting committee at their first meeting in Cairo on September 8, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)Rumors continue to swirl around Egypt’s Lagna Al-Khamseen—the fifty-member...
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Egypt’s Ex-Presidents’ Club
Morsi supporters gather outside Cairo Police Academy on November 4, 2013. (Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) “The trial of Mohamed Mursi is not taking place in the same manner as the trial...
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Everybody’s a Faloul
An Egyptian street vendor sells the country’s national flag and masks of Egypt’s Defense Minister, General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, as voters queue outside the polling station during the second day of...
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Dammed-Up Politics
A picture taken on May 28, 2013, shows the Blue Nile in Guba, Ethiopia, during its diversion ceremony in preparation for the construction of the Renaissance Dam. (William Lloyd-George/AFP/Getty Images)...
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Code of Honor
The remains of a horse carriage lie on the street in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan on April 6, 2014 after a blood feud broke out between two rival clans. (Ahmed El-Moghrabi/AFP/Getty Images)...
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Egypt Conspires Against Itself
One of the fourteen Egyptian NGO workers accused of receiving illegal foreign funding stands inside a cage during the trial in Cairo on February 26, 2012. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages The Arab world,...
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