Word: kishke
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...late-night calls on leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's Tora Prison. Sheikh Abdel Hamid Kishk, a blind fundamentalist preacher renowned for his rigid Islamic orthodoxy, was jailed for his vitriolic sermons against Copts. Five other Muslim imams were also arrested, along with seven activist members of the Coptic clergy...
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