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Hani Sameer

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Hani Sameer, an Egyptian journalist, has worked as editor of the newspaper Al-Shorouk and the news website AraGeek. On Twitter: @hanisameer82

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Egyptians carry on tradition of entrusting savings to gold

Hani Sameer

The street along the carved minaret of Al-Hakim Mosque is deserted on the first day of a two-week night-time curfew imposed by the authorities to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Cairo, Egypt, March 25, 2020.

Historic Cairo regains its ancient glory

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This picture taken on Oct. 22, 2019, shows a new Amazon warehouse near Paris.

Amazon's entry heats up local competition in Egypt

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This picture taken on May 14, 2021, shows an aerial view of Egypt's capital Cairo's Nile island of Manial al-Roda (top) and the historic old Cairo district (bottom).

Egypt to make oldest Islamic capital in Africa into open museum

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A picture taken from the Salaheddine Citadel shows Al-Rifai Mosque and the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, Egypt, June 17, 2015.

Ancient mosques in Egypt await rescue

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An image of the Cairo citadel, 1858-1890.

Documentaries explore Cairo’s old neighborhoods, alleyways

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Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly (R) and his Sudanese counterpart Abdalla Hamdok meet in Cairo, Egypt, March 11, 2021.

Egypt promotes economic ties with Sudan

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A man walks carrying dishes past a Star of David decorating the door of a home in the Jewish quarter of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on June 25, 2015.

Old doors turn into booming business in Egypt

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Inside Alexandria's bunker-turned-art space

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This picture taken on April 6, 2019 shows a view of a courtyard in the Coptic Orthodox "White Monastery" of St Shenouda (Schenute) the Archimandrite in Egypt's southern Sohag province, about 500 kilometres south of the capital Cairo. - Dating back to the second half of the 5th century AD, the monastery is named name for the colour of its white limestone outside walls. It is architecturally similar to the nearby "Red Monastery". (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/

Coptic art adorns Cairo’s historic mosques

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A man walks past a Star of David decorating the door of a home in the Jewish quarter of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on June 25, 2015. An Egyptian soap opera titled "The Jewish Quarter" aiming to dispel prejudice towards the country's long-vilified and nearly extinct Jewish community is being aired during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Architects find in doors of Old Cairo buildings historic value

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This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea,

Will Suez Canal feel impact of UAE-Israel normalization?

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