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Ghana’s Asamoah Gyan, left, battles with Egypt’s Mohamed Naguib and Ahmed Shedid, right, during their World Cup playoff soccer match in Kumasi, Ghana, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. Ghana stunned Egypt 6-1 in the first leg of their World Cup playoff on Tuesday, with Gyan’s fifth-minute goal kicking off a dominant performance that makes the Black Stars overwhelming favorites to be one of the five African teams in Brazil next year. (AP Photo)


Ghana wants FIFA meeting over Cairo security plans

Ghana wants FIFA meeting over Cairo security plans

Accra and London, AP/Asharq Al-Awsat—Ghana’s sports minister wants to meet with FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke over security for the World Cup playoff against Egypt in Cairo. Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah wrote in a letter to Valcke on Monday that...
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center right, participate in an arrival ceremony at the airport in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo)


The Fatimid Brotherhood

The Fatimid Brotherhood

Those busiest in Egypt today are the lawyers and the judiciary, in light of the rapid pace in which successive court rulings are being issued for a variety of different cases, particularly those involving past supporters and affiliates of the Hosni Mubarak regime....
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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. (AFP Photo)


Déjà Vu in Cairo

Déjà Vu in Cairo

I arrived at the hotel at 4:30 p.m. I left my baggage in the room, picked up the map and went out. I had read on the plane that there was a demonstration in Tahrir Square organized by Salafists protesting against the drafted constitution, and instead arguing for...
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Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi speaks during a news conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul (not pictured) after their meeting at Presidential Palace “Qasr Al Quba” in Cairo February 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)


Mursi and the Friday Sermon

Mursi and the Friday Sermon

Friday prayers at the Sharbatli Mosque in Cairo have become an interesting weekly story. Journalists lurk in wait for President Mohammed Mursi as he attends prayers in his local mosque. Last Friday, most newspapers focused on the worshipers’ complaints about...
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (R) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (L) at the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, 10 January 2013. Salehi arrived in Egypt for talks with Egyptian and Arab officials on bilateral relations and the Syrian crisis. EPA/KHALED ELFIQI


Iranian Media’s ‘’Fabrications’

Iranian Media’s ‘’Fabrications’

Saad El-Katatni, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member and former speaker of the Egyptian parliament, has denied a story recently reported by the Iranian network Press TV about him meeting with the Iranian speaker of the parliament Ali Larijani in Sudan, affirming that...