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|  ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
For some 25 years, the nation has woken to pictures of the First Lady plastered all over the daily newspapers, on television and on billboards proclaiming her the patron of the underprivileged. But how much do you know about her role in changing the face of society? In one of her longest interviews ever, Suzanne Mubarak reveals herself an activist, a reformer, a dedicated grandmother and family woman — and an astute politician with an ambitious agenda for tackling the concerns of the average Egyptian.
I didn't set out to like Suzanne Mubarak. Politically speaking, it would have been easier had I simply found her a pleasant do-gooder content with her role as First Lady. Although I enjoy politics, I’m also a foreigner, so for nearly seven years I’ve opted to indulge my inner technocrat and sidestep the First Family altogether. An unabashed fan of Gamal Mubarak’s reform agenda, I nonetheless stay away from the daily doings of the president, Mrs. Mubarak and their intimates. Much more accessible and easier to tackle are the machinations of the political machine that implements their vision, from Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on down.
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Patrick FitzPatrick
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A Lesson in Futility | Thousands of medications that should require a doctor’s written prescription are simply sold over the counter — and the Ministry of Health wants it to stop
He would come into the pharmacy once a week and ask for Ultradol (a narcotic-like painkiller). When I asked for his prescription and he didn’t have on
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Marwa Helal
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Read more | A new law raises teachers’ salaries, but critics say it won’t even make a dent in a badly damaged public education system
The public school education system is a shambles. That’s a given. Teachers don’t teach, the exams are memorized and the ‘smartest’ person is the one w
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Ethar El-Katatney
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 | Je Suis Musulman...
After riots in Paris, bombings in the United Kingdom and Spain, a high-profile assassination in the Netherlands and recent events in London and Scotland, Europe’s Muslims are coming under increasing scrutiny. Nowhere is this more true than in France, where the newly elected president has made immigration his top priority.
By Fayza Hassan
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 | Stolen Scripts
“Borrowed” plotlines are nothing new in Egyptian cinema, and the US crack-down on intellectual property rights is not the only crisis the industry faces
By Sherif Awad
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 | Your Essential Guide to Ramadan TV
Get ready for the annual viewing marathon, this year promising more — huge emphasis here on more — of what Ramadan couch potatoes have come to love and look forward to
By Sherif Awad
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