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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair - Opinion - Ahram Online - 0 views

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    Bernard Lewis, not Louis.
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'Persian Cats' Exposes Repression Of Musicians In Iran : NPR - 0 views

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  • Ghobadi has managed to smuggle a DVD of No One Knows About Persian Cats into Iran. He is urging supporters to copy and distribute it for free, and tells people to spend their money on the musicians still living in Iran.
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Pro-government voices call for cancellation of Egyptian megaprojects - Al-Monitor: The ... - 0 views

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  • On May 12, a source from the Nation’s Future Party said in an interview with al-Araby al-Jadeed that the party members and pro-Sisi MPs do not discuss “thorny” issues such as the new administrative capital without obtaining prior permission. Party members take instructions from the National Security Agency and "do not talk about any topic under the dome of parliament or in the media without the agency’s prior permission,” the source said.
  • “the launch of so many national megaprojects at the same time made the Egyptian economy vulnerable to any setbacks," such as  the coronavirus crisis, the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Russia's attack on Ukraine caused a severe global economic crisis that was felt in Egypt due to the suspension of wheat imports from those countries, as well the decline in tourism. Russians and Ukrainians constituted 30% to 40% of the total incoming tourists to Egypt.
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  • after an Emirati company withdrew from the administrative capital project in 2015, the Egyptian army and the government have been struggling to provide $25 billion for the cost of the first phase so far.
  • “The government cannot come out and officially announce the cancellation or suspension of these national projects, for several reasons," Hoda al-Mallah, an economic expert and director of the International Center for Economic Consulting and Feasibility Studies, told Al-Monitor. "Such announcement would cause disruption in foreign investments in Egypt, which could be very risky to the Egyptian economy.” She added that the Egyptian government obtained some loans specifically for development projects, and therefore suspending implementation may lead to legal accountability from the lending countries.
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