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...Here she spent her married life with the writer, poet and editor Ian Hamilton (who died in 2001), and their two sons Omar Robert and Ismail Richard inhabit with her the cultural “mezzaterra” — the overlapping...
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...And after Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi toppled the Islamist government in Cairo in 2013, he closed the Rafah border crossing, further choking Hamas....
...The militant group had had a toxic relationship with Cairo since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist Mohammed Morsi in 2013....
...President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who came to power in a 2013 coup, has turned to the International Monetary Fund for a $12bn loan....
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...In an interview with a local newspaper he denied he was biased, but admitted supporting Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. His role as a jurist, he said, was circumscribed by God....
...A religious association recruits the restless young hovering on the verge of criminality to join al-Qaeda in Iraq; Ismail, Intisar’s son, goes with them....
...Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s president, held a summit with Nicos Anastasiades, the Cypriot president, and Antonis Samaras, Greece’s prime minister, in Cairo earlier this month....
...“We are fighting with passengers all the time because they don’t want to pay the increased fare,” said Ismail Yassin....
...But for nearly two months he has happily donated three floors of the six-storey building to the presidential campaign of former field marshal Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi without charge....
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...Gamel Abdel Nasser’s Arab nationalism in the ensuing two decades championed – also with popular support – a different narrative, but at the expense of civil and political freedoms....
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...Ahfad al-Rasoul, for example, is also thought to be receiving support from Saudi Arabia....
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