List of Egypt articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Game Over, Man: How an Egyptian TV Host Got Pwned by a 5-Year-Old Video Game Clip
An Egyptian television host mistook a 5-year-old YouTube clip for recent footage of Russia striking the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Promise and Peril of Cheap Oil
Everyone likes $2 gasoline. But what if it's bad for the long-term growth of the U.S. economy — and for global stability?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia Is Repeating Cold War Mistakes in Syria
In 1957, the Soviet Union’s ally Egypt intervened in Syria’s messy politics. It didn’t go well. Why does Putin think this time will be different?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sisi Caves to Critics by Releasing Al Jazeera Journalists
Right before the Egyptian leader heads to the U.N., he pardoned 100 prisoners Wednesday.
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A police officer restrains a man (C) arrested during an anti-parallel trading protest in the Yuen Long district of Hong Kong on March 1, 2015. Scuffles broke out on March 1 between protesters demonstrating against so-called parallel traders, who buy products in Hong Kong and sell them back on the mainland for a profit, and anti-protesters. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt Has a Creative Way of Hiding Bad News: Banning Journalists From Reporting on It
Cairo has promised a full investigation into why its security forces accidentally killed eight Mexican tourists. Too bad Egypt has now banned journalists from reporting on it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Good News for Egypt’s Gas Sector Could Be Bad News for Israel
The discovery of a “supergiant” gas field in Egyptian waters could give Cairo a political and economic boost at the expense of Israel’s own offshore reserves.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt’s Besieged Universities
The country’s scholars had better teach from President Sisi’s textbook — or else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ISIS in Egypt Claims to Have Beheaded Croatian Hostage
Tomislav Salopek, an employee of a French geosciences firm, was kidnapped in Cairo last month.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Sisi’s Canal Extravaganza
With spectacle and ceremony, Egypt's president unveiled an unnecessary infrastructure project in a country that is falling to pieces.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sisi’s Regime Is a Gift to the Islamic State
How extreme repression in Egypt is producing a new generation of terrorists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Islamic State Sinai Affiliate Claims to Have Hit Egyptian Ship With Missile
It's the latest escalation in a brutal fight between the Egyptian government and Islamist militants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt’s Coming Chaos
The assassination of a top official and a brazen attack by an Islamic State affiliate this week herald a prolonged period of bloodshed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Killed Islam Salah al-Din Atitu?
The Cairo university student left home to take a final exam. The next day, he turned up in a city morgue, with marks of torture on his body, and police peddling a suspicious story about how he got there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt’s Quiet Social Revolution
The generation that launched the Tahrir Square revolution in 2011 is changing the country again.
