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Egypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert. And the West is silent. - PRI Fri, 06 Oct 2017 23:23:08 GMT

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Egypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert. And the West is silent.
PRI
Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 57 people in the escalated persecution of LGBTQ communities in Egypt. The targets have had a range of identies: Members of the LGBTQ communites, allies to the LGBTQ community and others. Since the concert, at ...
Rainbow Raids: Egypt Launches Its Widest Anti-Gay Crackdown YetNBCNews.com
Egypt conducts anal exams on suspected gay menThe Punch
Egypt: Mass Arrests Amid LGBT Media Blackout | Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch
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Egypt wins acclaim for aggressive campaign against hepatitis C - FRANCE 24 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 07:29:26 GMT

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Egypt wins acclaim for aggressive campaign against hepatitis C
FRANCE 24
Egypt has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world. Now the country has undertaken an aggressive campaign to stamp out the disease, both domestically and abroad. The hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the needles ...

Ancient Obelisk Fragment Uncovered in Egypt Is Largest Ever - Newsweek Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:02:30 GMT

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Ancient Obelisk Fragment Uncovered in Egypt Is Largest Ever
Newsweek
Archaeologists working at the Saqqara necropolis, a large burial ground south of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, have recovered the tip of an obelisk more than 4,300 years old, a fragment from one of the largest ancient stone monuments ever found.

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Keith Haring and Ancient Egypt Connect at Frieze Masters - Hyperallergic Fri, 06 Oct 2017 21:50:38 GMT

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Keith Haring and Ancient Egypt Connect at Frieze Masters
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Remember the song “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles? This show has the same sexy energy as the song, minus historical inaccuracies and 1980s hair teases. Egyptomania crosses three millennia of history to juxtapose Ancient Egyptian artifacts with ...

Sadat's ghost haunts Mubarak's dreams for Egypt – archive, 1984 - The Guardian Fri, 06 Oct 2017 04:01:13 GMT

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Sadat's ghost haunts Mubarak's dreams for Egypt – archive, 1984
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Three years have passed since President Sadat was assassinated, and President Mubarak has run through half his presidential term. Yet his Egypt still lacks a distinctive shape and people are wondering if there is a real Mr Mubarak still waiting to ...
THIS DATE IN HISTORY, Oct. 6: Army officer assassinates Egypt's SadatStarNewsOnline.com

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Ancient Egypt: 1800 Years-old Pet Cemetery Filled With 100 Skeletons Discovered - Newsweek Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:43:00 GMT

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Ancient Egypt: 1800 Years-old Pet Cemetery Filled With 100 Skeletons Discovered
Newsweek
Archaeologists working on Egypt's Red Sea coast have discovered a pet cemetery nearly two millennia old containing the skeletons of 100 domestic pets including cats, dogs and monkeys. The cemetery, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., was ...

How Egypt's opposition is countering Sisi ahead of presidential vote - Al-Monitor Fri, 06 Oct 2017 20:51:03 GMT

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How Egypt's opposition is countering Sisi ahead of presidential vote
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The sentence issued against Egyptian lawyer Khaled Ali, who intends to run in the 2018 presidential elections, comes after opposition factions announced the launch of talks to agree on a consensual candidate to run against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Egypt and US Share Counterproductive Anti-Terrorism StrategiesLobeLog

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The UAE Secretly Picked Up the Tab for the Egyptian Dictatorship's ... - The Intercept Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:54:54 GMT

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The UAE Secretly Picked Up the Tab for the Egyptian Dictatorship's ...
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When Egypt went to work to establish the credibility of its repressive government in Washington, it had help from the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the ...

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Assassin's Creed Origins: how Ubisoft painstakingly recreated ancient Egypt - The Guardian Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:00:21 GMT

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Assassin's Creed Origins: how Ubisoft painstakingly recreated ancient Egypt
The Guardian
In 49 BCE Cleopatra ascended to the Egyptian throne amid enormous geopolitical upheaval and radical change. With the final war of the Roman Republic brewing, the period has proven hugely influential in fine art, theatre and film, from Shakespeare to ...
Assassin's Creed Origins finds new life in a new settingThe Verge
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Assassin's Creed Origins: New Stealth Gameplay in Ancient Egypt | Ubiblog | Ubisoft [US]YouTube

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Netizen Report: LGBT People Face Online Censorship and Threats in Egypt, Jordan - Global Voices Online Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:17:00 GMT

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Netizen Report: LGBT People Face Online Censorship and Threats in Egypt, Jordan
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Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. Egypt's broadcast regulator, the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, has banned all forms of ...

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