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Chipping Away at the Copts
Worshippers attend a service at the St Samaans Church in the Mokattam village, in Cairo.A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in...
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Déjà Vu in Cairo
Egyptian Salafists shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the implementation of the Shari’a (Islamic law) in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on November 2, 2012. Source: AFP/Getty Images I arrived at the...
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Democracy and the Caliphate
A Saudi man casts his ballot at a polling station in Riyadh on September 29, 2011, as Saudi men were voting in municipal elections. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images An article entitled “Doctrines of...
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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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Blowing up the Al-Nusra Front
AK-47 machine guns hang in a shelter for Syrian rebels in the Salaheddine district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 12, 2013. DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the past two years,...
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A View from the Bridge
Veteran war correspondent Medyan Daireh. Courtesy Medyan DairehI have only covered war twice in my life: once in 2006, when I was young and reckless and wanted to experience the Israeli invasion of...
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Liberal Islam’s Poster Boy
Kamal Helbawy. THE MAJALLAKamal Al-Helbawy, until recently one of the oldest members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has spent most of his life on the perimeters of power. Coming of age in Cairo when...
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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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Fighting Faith
Yemeni Salafist protesters shout slogans as they take part in a demonstration in Sana’a against fighting that erupted earlier in November between the Shiite Houthi movement and Salafi militants in the...
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