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Walid Salah

Walid Salah is a freelance Egyptian journalist specializing in political affairs. He is the former head of the Vito newspaper's politics department.

Egypt reinstates Information Ministry in Cabinet reshuffle

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Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Coptic Christians who were killed in an attack, in Minya, Egypt November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC193E912290

Places of worship for Egyptian Copts closed after protests

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An Egyptian Muslim girl reads the koran during an evening prayers called "Tarawih" on Laylat al-Qadr or Night of Decree, at Amr Ibn El-Aas mosque, the first and oldest mosque ever built on the land of Egypt, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in old Cairo, Egypt June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RC1ECD154720

Egypt's Salafists start offering marriage counseling

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Egypt's lawmakers consider merging small parties

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Does Egypt need an animal welfare law?

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A man holds his smart card and some coins at a bakery in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, 170 km (106 miles) northeast of Cairo, February 24, 2014. A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionizing some of Egypt's politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible -- cutting crippling food import bills. Authorities who hope to avoid protests over subsidised loaves sold for the equivalent of one U.S. cent have turned to smart cards to try to manage the corrupt and wasteful bread

Egypt's doubled rations no cause for celebration as prices set to soar

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People walk in front of election campaign posters for the Salafist al-Nour Party, during the second round of parliament elections in Cairo, Egypt, November 23, 2015, on the final day of voting in Egypt's two-phase parliamentary elections. Egyptians voted on Sunday in the second phase of elections that are meant to restore parliament after a more than three-year hiatus but which critics say have been undermined by widespread repression. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTX1VE76

Egypt's Islamist parties are all about marriage, not politics for women

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An Egyptian army soldier looks on from his postion at a checkpoint in Al Arish city, in the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula, July 8, 2015. Giant posters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in military uniform hang at security checkpoints leading to the Sinai, but the crash of a Russian airliner in the peninsula has shattered the image of control they seek to project. Picture taken July 8, 2015. To match EGYPT-CRASH/INSURGENCY-INSIGHT REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1V321

Are security passes solution to ending terrorism in Sinai?

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