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Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi addresses journalists following an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Cairo on October 25, 2014. (AFP)

Opinion: A New Wave of Terrorism

by Ali Ibrahim | Oct 29, 2014 | Opinion

It is natural that Egyptians feel shock and anger about last Friday’s terrorist attack in Sinai, which killed 30 soldiers. It is also natural for there to be widespread calls across the country for a decisive response to this crime, and for the liquidation of...

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File photo of Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim. (AFP)

Egypt must review policy on Islamists, says senior Salafist

by Emad El-Mahdy | Apr 26, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s military-backed government must rethink its methods of dealing with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, according to Salafist Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya ideologue Nageh Ibrahim. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, the senior Egyptian Islamist...

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Hussein Shamit. (AAA File photo)

A Conversation with Mubarak’s Attempted Assassin

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jan 23, 2013 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat–In 1995, members of the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, working together with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, staged an assassination attempt on then president Hosni Mubarak as he arrived in Addis Ababa for a summit of African leaders. Gunmen...