Word: egyptianism
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...security-obsessed Mubarak regime may find difficult to take. In the Brotherhood's 80-year history, its members have been involved in several attempts on the life of modern Egypt's founding President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s; earlier the Brotherhood was implicated in the assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Nuqrashi...
...levity in the show: in gratitude, the North African Muslim offers to wear a kilt of her clan, the MacDonalds. The other poems posted on the walls are darker. "Have you visited the graves of the living?/In Belmarsh there are two such blocks," writes Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian lawyer arrested after the 1998 bombings in East Africa...
...methodical in curbing other militias and political foes from operating in the Strip. On the other hand, says one Gaza observer, "Hamas can now order the other militias to abide by the cease-fire, which it couldn't do before." All major resistance groups signed on to the Egyptian-sponsored truce...
...Egyptian archaeologists uncovered the remains of a hidden pyramid believed to house the tomb of the obscure Pharaoh Menkauhor, who briefly ruled more than 4,000 years ago. Known as the Headless Pyramid because of its missing top, the structure was discovered by a German archaeologist in the 19th century but later obscured by the desert sand. Authorities hope further digs at the site will yield more discoveries...
...necessitates dipping heavily into the anthropology and African and African American studies departments. It is worth pausing and asking why the histories of non-white regions are still largely relegated to the arena of ethnic studies when French and German are as much categories of ethnicity as are Indian, Egyptian, or Ghanaian...