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Mohamed Fadel Fahmy

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy is an Egyptian-Canadian freelance journalist and author of Baghdad Bound and Egyptian Freedom Story. On Twitter: @Repent11

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi walks in front of graffiti depicting Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, army commander and defense minister, around Cairo University and Nahdet Misr Square in Giza July 23, 2013. Six people were killed in Cairo on Tuesday in violence between supporters and opponents of Mursi, state-run media reported. The violence broke out before dawn near a Brotherhood protest at Cairo University, where Mursi supporters have been camped out sin

New Muslim Brotherhood Faction Opposes Violence

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy

An army check point is seen in El-Arish city, in North Sinai July 15, 2013. At least three people were killed and 17 wounded when suspected militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a bus carrying workers in Egypt's North Sinai province early on Monday, security and medical sources said. REUTERS/Stringer (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) - RTX11NAD

The Jihadist Threat in Egypt's Sinai

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy

Mohammed al-Zawahiri (C), leader of Salafi Jihad in Egypt, takes part in a demonstration organised by Egyptian Islamists against the French intervention in Mali on January 18, 2013 in Cairo. The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri joined dozens of Egyptian Islamists in a protest near the French embassy in Cairo. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptian Fighters Join 'Lesser Jihad' in Syria

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy

A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 19, 2013. Egypt will not tolerate a two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip that is destabilising its Sinai peninsula, a senior aide to its Islamist president said, explaining why Egyptian forces flooded sub-border tunnels last week. To match Interview PALESTINIANS-TUNNELS/EGYPT REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - R

Egyptian Salafist Considers Sinai The 'Next Frontier'

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy

An Israeli soldier stands near the border fence between Israel and Egypt as African would-be immigrants sit on the other side near the Israeli village of Be'er Milcha September 6, 2012. Israel ruled out entry on Wednesday for 20 Africans, whom Israeli media said were from Eritrea and included at least one woman and child, who have camped on its desert border with Egypt for almost a week, part of a crackdown on migrants who walk across the porous frontier. The fence along the 260 km (160 mile)-long frontier

Israeli, Norwegian Tourists Kidnapped in Egyptian Sinai

Mohamed Fadel Fahmy