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A handout picture made available on March 14, 2015 by the Egyptian presidency shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (R) and Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (C) listening to Egyptian investment minister Ashraf Salman (3rd-R) as they look at a scale model of the new Egyptian capital displayed at the congress hall in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. (AFP Photo/Mohamed Samaaha/Egyptian Presidency HO)
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An Egyptian woman casts her ballot during the second day of presidential elections at a polling station in the Heliopolis district of Cairo on May 27, 2014. (EPA/Khaled Elfiqi)
Egypt: New electoral list turns the tables
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—The newly announced Fee Hob Misr (Out of love of Egypt) electoral list has turned all election calculations on their head in the North African republic ahead of parliamentary elections set to begin on March 21, say local commentators. The new...Caption:
A handout picture released by the Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (C), surrounded by top military generals, as he addresses journalists following an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council of the armed Forces in Cairo on January 31, 2015. (AFP Photo)
Egypt to issue new “terrorist entities” law: sources
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Cairo is preparing to amend its anti-terrorism laws, including new penalties for terror-related crimes, high-level Egyptian official sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday. The new anti-terror law will include a new, more stringent and...Caption:
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (2nd R) talks next to Coptic Pope Tawadros II as he attends Christmas Eve Mass at St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope in Cairo, on January 6, 2015. (Reuters/ Al-Yawm Al-Saba’a Newspaper)
Sisi makes historic Christmas visit to St. Mark’s Cathedral
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi visited the country’s main Coptic cathedral in Cairo on Tuesday evening to attend its Christmas celebrations, becoming the first Egyptian head of state to visit the cathedral to mark the occasion. Sisi...Caption:
In this Wednesday Nov. 1, 2006 file photo, a Qatari employee of Al-Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel passes by the logo of Al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)