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Inspection battle threatens Egypt’s wheat supply
Wheat inspector on paid junkets would delay shipments over late breakfast.
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Rex Tillerson and the Unraveling of the State Department – The New York Times
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City | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Cairo is most dangerous megacity for women.
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‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes – The New York Times
By Thor’s Hammer!
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Death toll from Somalia bomb attacks tops 300
Terrible attack in Mogadishu
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Patrick Cockburn · Underground in Raqqa · LRB 19 October 2017
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Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa — And Its Own Soul
“Europe wants to use Libya as its Berlin Wall to divide Africa from Europe.”
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The beauty and mystery of Arabic calligraphy
Robert Irwin
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Adam Shatz and Olivier Roy · Living Orients · LRB 11 October 2017
Good podcast on Roy’s youth.
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