Lina Attalah, the head of Egypt’s independent outlet Mada Masr, is due to appear in a criminal court on Wednesday, 11 November, facing possible prison time in a retrial that has drawn international attention. She is being retried over…
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Masr! What the World Cup Taught Me About Being Egyptian
“Shemal, yameen. Ehna E-Masryeen!” (“Left, right, we are Egyptians!”) a group of Egyptian fans chant outside Seattle’s iconic Pier 58 stadium. I joined the thousands dressed in red-black-and-white marching from the Central Waterfront to Lumen Field. We were going to war, but it wasn’t a military campaign. We had traded combat fatigues for football jerseys, battle drums for tablas, and helmets for pharaonic headdresses. We, fans of the Pharaohs, were an army of the Egyptian…
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