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Safa Joudeh

Safa Joudeh is a Cairo-based broadcast and print journalist. On Twitter: @SafaJoudeh

Pro-Islamist demonstrators hold Egyptian flags and posters of former President Mohamed Mursi during a protest in support of him at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, May 17, 2015. An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi and 106 supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood in connection with a mass jail break in 2011. Mursi and his fellow defendants, including top Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, were convicted for killing and kidnapping policemen, a

Why Turkey and Egypt won’t reconcile anytime soon

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CAIRO, EGYPT - JANUARY 15: An Egyptian men stand in line to cast their votes at a polling booth on January 15, 2014 in the rural district of Fayoum, Egypt. Egyptians went to the polls for a second day today, after the first day of voting yesterday was marred by clashes between protesters and security forces, and one explosion at a courthouse, in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Egyptians are voting to decide on the third constitution for Egypt since the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak in February 201

Egypt rural tribes expect payback for backing Sisi

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A student of Al-Azhar University, who is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, throws a stone during clashes with riot police and residents of the area at the university campus in Cairo's Nasr City district January 8, 2014. The trial of Mursi on charges of inciting murder of protesters was postponed on Wednesday until Feb. 1 after officials said that bad weather had prevented him being flown to court. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL U

Egypt cracks down on students

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A woman looks through her window above an electoral slogan for Salafi political party Al-Nour that reads, "Together hand in hand we build the country through religion" , outside a polling station in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, about 25 km (16 miles) northeast of Cairo January 3, 2012. Egyptians voted in the third round of a parliamentary election on Tuesday that has so far handed Islamists the biggest share of seats in an assembly that will be central in the planned transition from army rule. REUTERS/Amr

Egypt's Salafists Are Hoping To Capitalize on Morsi's Failure

Safa Joudeh