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President-elect Trump and Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seem to have good rapport. But will that put food on the table of 20 million hungry Egyptians?
When Abdel Fattah el-Sisi overthrew the elected but inept Muslim Brotherhood government, hope was in the air and many young people exulted. But no more.
The seven-year sentences given former BBC reporter Peter Greste and his colleagues is a clear message that the Al-Sisi government claims a monopoly on truth.
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General Sisi has put on a business suit, but there’s no question who’s in charge as he imprisons critics, kills protestors, and prepares to assume the mantle of president.
SS doctor Aribert Heim disappeared after the war to lead a secret life in Cairo, ultimately giving Nazi hunters the slip. Now, a new book reveals Heim’s flight, his years in exile, and the manhunt for one of Mauthausen’s most notorious criminals.
The old blood feud between Egypt’s Islamists and the security forces runs deep. And until it ends, report Mike Giglio and Christopher Dickey, the country may never have peace.
With Egypt's first democratically president detained by the army in an unknown location, Hosni Mubarak released from jail and the army back in power, have Egypt's revolutionaries ceded street power to military rule?
The Egyptian Army’s decapitation strategy may be working, but at least one strongman remains.
In Cairo, the senator urged Egypt’s embattled Muslim Brotherhood to talk with the new government.
Not much, says Marty Peretz, other than the heroic efforts of John Kerry to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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