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Indonesian Muslim students read from the religious academic books in an Islamic course at Al-Azhar mosque in the old city of Cairo on December 4, 2011. Al-Azhar mosque, which was developed into one of the oldest Islamic universities, pays special attention to the Koranic sciences and traditions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed and all the modern fields of science. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Push to remove Quran from Egyptian textbooks faces backlash

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

People shout slogans and hold Egyptian flags in front of the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul on march 2, 2019 during a demonstration against death penalties in Egypt after the recent execution of nine men. - Egypt on February 20 hanged nine men for the 2015 assassination of prosecutor general Hisham Barakat following jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary to avenge the government's crackdown on Islamists. Turkish President sharply criticised his Egyptian counterpart and called for the release of Muslim

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, exiled opposition form united front

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Umm Yasser, an Egyptian Bedouin woman guide from the Hamada tribe, prepares tea for a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu in South Sinai governorate on March 29, 2019, during the first "Sinai Trail" led by Bedouin women guides. - In Wadi Sahu, a village in the southern part of Egypt's eastern Sinai peninsula, made up of humble shacks with corrugated iron and recycled scraps, Bedouins are banking on the return of tourism after the tumultuous years since Egypt's 2011 uprising. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt's stateless keep receiving empty promises of citizenship

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Egypt exhibiting its 2015 airstrikes in Libya with new film

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (2nd L) walks alongside US Representative Devin Nunes (2ndR), Republican of California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, following a meeting at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 4, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Egyptian parliament hopes to counter US Congress criticism on human rights

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

This picture taken on August 18, 2019 shows restoration works ongoing at the historic "Le Palais Hindou" (also known as the "Baron Empain Palace") built by in the early 20th century by Belgian industrialist Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, in the classical Khmer architectural style of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, in the Egyptian capital Cairo's northeastern Heliopolis district. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How Cairo’s Heliopolis heritage managed to remain uncovered

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud (R) and Secretray General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf, hold a press conferece at the end of the GCC's 41st summit, in the city of al-Ula in northwestern Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2021. - Gulf leaders signed a "solidarity and stability" deal after the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Qatar publicly embraced, bringing Doha back into the regional fold after a three-year rift. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP) (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE/AF

Egypt, Bahrain adopt 'wait and see' approach to reconciliation with Qatar

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

A picture taken on July 12, 2020, shows the Attarine Mosque, originally an octagonal church dating back to 370, transformed into a mosque during the Islamic invasion of the seventh century, in the Mediterranean Egyptian city of Alexandria. - Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia is to reopen for Muslim worship as a mosque after a Turkish court on July 10 overturned a 1934 cabinet decision to turn the UNESCO World Heritage site into a museum, clearing the way for a July 24 reversion to its status as a mosque, in a

Grand Mufti of Egypt says OK for Muslims to build churches

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Egyptian women sit in the street with their furniture after they were evacuated from their home a few days ago on July 14, 2010, in the al-Darb el-Ahmar area in the historic Islamic Cairo. Several hundred meters (yards) away an old building collapsed overnight killing seven people sleeping inside. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Hundreds left homeless as Egyptian authorities demolish random constructions

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Visitors look at a display of India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) Brahmos missile at the DefExpo 2018, a large defence exhibition showcasing military equipment, on the outskirts of Chennai on April 11, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKAR (Photo credit should read ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Egypt considers purchase of Indian missile system

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Egyptian men living in Saudi Arabia queue to casts their ballots in the early voting for the presidential elections on May 26-27, at the Egyptian embassy in Riyadh, on May 15, 2014. Egyptians abroad started voting in their country's first presidential elections since the military deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi nearly a year ago. Around 680,000 Egyptians, in 124 countries have registered to vote and have until May 18, to cast their ballots at diplomatic missions in their countries of residence, sta

Egyptians living in Saudi Arabia face attacks

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

This picture taken on October 19, 2018 shows camels belonging to Sinai bedouins waiting along the footpath leading down from atop Mount Catherine, above the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Catherine and near the Egyptian town of the same name in south of the Sinai peninsula. (Photo by Sally KANDIL / AFP) (Photo credit should read SALLY KANDIL/AFP via Getty Images)

Visitors can begin to follow Jesus along Egypt's Holy Family Trail

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt