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IntroductionOn January 10-11, 2013, Cairo hosted a conference that was the first of its kind in the Arab world. Titled "Support for the Ahwāz People," the conference was the first to express public Arab support for the Arab Sunnī minority living in Iran's Ahwaz region and to condemn Shīʿite Iran's...
The website EgyptSource, run by the Atlantic Council, recently invited me to publish two articles on the Salafi movement. Excerpts and brief commentary are provided below, along with the links to explore the full articles on their site.
“People hear about people and think in clichés and stereotypes. Now they were able to challenge and counterbalance me.” Ṭāriq Shaʿlān about the New Arab Debates.   Co-founder and head of the economic committee of the new al-Waṭan Party, Ṭāriq Shaʿlān, engaged in an intense debate with lawyer Ghādāh...
This meeting took place in one of the buildings belonging to the Presidential palace on December 10, 2012, only days before the referendum on December 15. Part of the area around the presidential palace was closed by the military and only could get in after Cornelis Hulsman had told an officer that...
The Coptic Orthodox Church prohibited the five candidates for papal chair of Saint Mark in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away on March 17, 2012, from appearing on satellite channels before the election of the 118th pope. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, Oct. 16, p. 3] Read original text...

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