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Egypt's Administrative Court has upheld a ban on women professors wearing the Islamic niqab at Cairo University, state media Ahram Online reported. The Tuesday ruling was on a lawsuit filed against the university's president, Dr. Gaber Nassar, by Ahmed Mahran, the head of the Cairo Center for Political and Legal Studies. Mahran represented 77 women faculty members, including some who do not wear the niqab but joined the cause in solidarity with those the ban would harm. Nassar had issued…