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Vice President of the Salafist Nour Party, Bassam El-Zarqa (L) attends a meeting of the committee revising the country’s controversial constitution, in Cairo, Egypt, 09 September 2013. (EPA)
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Sep 28, 2013 | Middle East
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—A heated debate raged among the 50-member constitutional drafting committee over the wording of Article II, which states that Islam is the official state religion, Arabic the official state language, and which names Islamic Sharia Law as the...