Hints and tips:
...US court against Hazem Abdel Aziz el-Beblawi, a former prime minister....
...She pointed to the case of Menna Abdel Aziz, a young woman who in May alleged that she had been beaten, raped and photographed by her attacker and others while visiting his home....
...President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has described population growth along with terrorism as the biggest threats facing the country....
...Abdel Aziz Haikal reaches down to grab a green shoot from a paddy field in Egypt’s northern Nile Delta at a time of year when the plant should be filled with rice grains....
...Today, under elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a former general, the army gives every impression that it intends to stay. A charitable revisionist view of Mr Mubarak is emerging....
...Now the president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, is trying to change that by transforming the $5bn economy and capitalising on largely untapped assets, such as its offshore oil and gasfields....
...It has imposed capital controls on the amount of dollars that can leave the country and has placed limits on foreign currency deposits Hamdy Abdel Aziz, head of the engineering industries chambers, said...
...The new president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, soon turned on many of his secular critics, leaving Al Aswany in the awkward position of having supported a junta that has shut him down, making him drop a weekly...
...When the career diplomat Adel al-Jubeir took over his post in a wider reshuffle carried out by King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud in late April, Saud al-Faisal was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister...
...The disappearance of Abdel Aziz al-Khair, an Alawite dissident, was a striking example, said Joshua Landis, a Syria analyst from the University of Oklahoma....
...The death last week of Prince Saud al-Faisal, the respected statesman who had been foreign minister of Saudi Arabia for 40 years until this spring, prompted comment about the kingdom’s apparent transition...
...The longest-serving foreign minister in the world, Prince Saud has been replaced by Adel al-Jubeir, a career diplomat and ambassador to Washington....
...The king also replaced ailing foreign minister Saud al-Faisal, the face of Saudi foreign policy over the past four decades, with Adel al-Jubair, the country’s ambassador to the US....
...A new era started in which protests were banned and a strongman and former army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was anointed as president and cast by supporters as saviour of the country....
...Specifically, the DoJ is querying payments made to Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz, the son of King Abdullah, and Al Obayya, a company associated with him....
...But this may just the “tip of the iceberg”, Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg, a Gulf Co-operation Council official and academic, wrote in the Jeddah-based English daily Arab News on Wednesday, saying there were suspicions...
...The country had been one of only three Arab nations to recognise Israel, but President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who had taken power months earlier in a military coup and booted out the Israeli ambassador...
...For a president who has carried out two coups in his fragile, poor country, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has made quite a personal turn round....
...On Tuesday, Mr Maliki also received a coveted endorsement from Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, president of Egypt, who publicly offered his support for the Baghdad government....
...“Private sector investment is still weak in Algeria,” said Mr al-Kadi....
...Speaking at a news conference, Prince Saud al-Faisal, his Saudi counterpart, said: “A true relationship between friends is based on sincerity, candour and frankness, rather than mere courtesy.’’...
...Under Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a former general and coup leader who was elected president in 2009, the government has tried to tackle the threat of extremism with a combination of tough security measures...
...The rows of worshippers spilling on to the street outside the al Aziz Billah mosque in Cairo broke into chants against Egypt’s ruling military as soon as Friday prayers ended....
...“The army is against the regime,” says Abdel-Aziz Khalid, a former general who was jailed following the 1989 coup and now heads his own political party....
...However, the PLC has not met since 2007 and its current head is Abdel Aziz Dweik, a Hamas official....
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