Tensions follow soccer rivals

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Egypt’s Ali G.

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Egypt to ban full women’s veils

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World Books Review: Chased out of Paradise

Paula Jacques’s “Light of My Eye” is a heart-wrenching novel about the dissolution of Egyptian Jewish life, the tale of a people displaced ten years after World War II.

Who’s next in Egypt?

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Obama’s Mideast policy

U. S. President Barack Obama has been in office for 6 months. The World’s Aaron Schachter takes a look at the impact the young administration has had on Middle East politics so far.
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World Books Feature: Summer Reads for the Adventurous

It may be summer, but your brain needn’t go on vacation. My summer list of fiction in translation that demands and repays close attention.

Geo answer

The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Egyptian city of Luxor located at the site of the ancient city of Thebes. Four Egyptian mummies from the Brooklyn Museum underwent a CAT scan this week. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from the museum’s Egyptian art curator Edward Bleiburg.
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Egypt’s reaction to protests

Reporter Ursula Lindsey tells how Iran’s street protests are being viewed in Egypt. Cairo and Tehran are old rivals, with longstanding grievances. But the two governments agree on one thing. Neither wants to see anti-government demonstrations on their streets.

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Global Hit: Youssou N’Dour Documentary

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi the director of a documentary film that focuses on Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour and his controversial 2004 album “Egypt.” The album was controversial in Senegal because it mixed music and religion. Listen

Global Political Cartoons: May 31 to June 5, 2009

“A New Beginning” is the theme of this week’s global political cartoons. It was the title of the speech President Barack Obama gave in Cairo when he addressed Muslims around the world. But it could easily describe the message of the GM bankruptcy and reports out of South Korea that North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il has nominated his third and youngest son, 26-year-old Jong-Un, as his successor.

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President Obama speaks in Cairo

Anchor Lisa Mullins introduces coverage of reaction to President Obama’s speech in Cairo today reaching out to the Muslim world. Reporter Ursula Lindsey spoke with some Egyptians in a Cairo cafe to get their response. Listen

Parsing the president’s speech

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University, and Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, for analysis of President Obama’s speech today in Cairo aimed at the Muslim world. Listen

Reaction from Israel

Anchor Lisa Mullins gets reaction to President Obama’s speech in Cairo from Yossi Alpher, co-editor of BitterLemmons.org, an online dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Listen

Interpreting president Obama’s speech

The World’s Katy Clark tells us about how the White House tried to ensure that President Obama’s Cairo speech got out to as many corners of the globe as possible. Listen