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Gihan Zaki resigned from her position as Egypt's minister of culture after a final court ruling ordered her to pay compensation in an intellectual property dispute involving writer Soheir Abdel Hamid. The case centered on a biography of Egyptian aristocrat Kout El Kouloub, with the court ruling that Zaki had violated the intellectual property rights of writer Soheir Abdel Hamid in the publication of the work. In a statement issued on Tuesday, 7 July, the Ministry of Culture said Zaki…
