After surviving the bloodshed when Egyptian security forces killed some 800 people in a sprawling Islamist protest camp in 2013, 12 Muslim Brotherhood members are on death row waiting to be hanged.
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IT is a historical fact that many of the Arab elites who call for Western-style democracy are missing, as they choose to forget that importing ready-made templates of rule for societies that are not prepared for it leads to deep problems and stirs up strife and divisions, which in turn contribute to
In Ancient Egypt, the pharaohs had "solar boats" built to take them into the afterlife. One of these boats was discovered in 1954. It has now been moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum