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Obama promotes choice in Cairo

The hijab as a garment of political protest is not a concept readily embraced by the West, because it is counter to our construction of Muslim women as eternal victims.
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Interview with author Hugh Miles

"I started working freelance for Western newspapers and magazines, covering everything from terrorism to the arts. I was on the point of leaving and then unexpectedly I met an Egyptian girl and fell in love."
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Playing Cards in Cairo: A Review

This is a review of Playing Cards in Cairo by Hugh Miles. ABACUS. 2008.
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A Conversation with Kochkar, the Loader

His name was Kochkar, and for the past two years he’d worked as a loader, traveling up and down the Nile with Hadhoud about five times a year. His true field of expertise was botany, which he’d studied as a forestry student in Cairo. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles full movie One Night in the Tropics dvd [...]
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