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A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations
Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal ...
How a single battle—and one young pharaoh—turned Egypt into a superpower
Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...