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2009-06-04 In Cairo, Egypt, Barack Obama, President of the USA, gave his speech to the Muslim world: On A New Beginning.
2008-09 In Egypt, 40 percent of the respondents had mixed feelings, and 20 percent positive feelings for al-Qaeda.
-- According to a recent world poll conducted for the BBC
2008-06-23 "There are now 13,000 religious schools [in Egypt] that produce terrorists, like the Taliban madrassas in Pakistan. At religious schools they teach children that Muslims who do not pray should be killed."
-- Dr Sayyed al-Qimni, one of Egypt's best known liberal writers and historians
2008-05-28 Each of the five African countries that are predominately north of the Sahara (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), have reduced their child mortality rates by at least 45 percent since 1990.
-- UNICEF report, “The State of Africa’s Children”
2008-05-26 In Egypt, parliament voted 305 to 103 in favor of extending the Emercency Law for another two years.
Instead of replacing it by a new anti-terrorism law
2008-03-25 In a letter to Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the government of the Netherlands clarified that the views of MP Geert Wilders and his understanding of Islam were not representative of those of the government.

Sheikh Tantawi demanded that the Netherlands government take more forceful action against Wilders, and added that the protection given to those harming Islam will negatively affect Egyptian-Dutch relations.
2008-01-30 "Listen to me carefully. Gaza is not part of Egypt, nor will it ever be a part of Egypt. I hear talk of a proposal to turn the Strip into an extension of the Sinai peninsula, of offloading responsibility for it onto Egypt, but what I say to Israel is this: Its plan is nothing but a dream, and I would add that I do not accept faits accomplis.
Today that border is going to be closed. Right now, as we speak, Egyptian forces are at work."
-- Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, interview with newspaper La Repubblica
2008-01-16 "I am optimistic an agreement can be reached, and the reason I am is because I believe the leadership of Israel and the leadership of the Palestinians is committed to a two state solution.
And I know nations in the neighborhood are willing to help."
-- President George Bush, in Egypt
2008-01-16 In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak agreed to support a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
2008-01-04 Lebanon's ruling coalition urged the Arab League to protect the country from what it said were Syrian attempts to block the long-overdue election.

"We call on the Arab League to protect independent Lebanon from destruction by the Syrian regime, and its terrorism aimed at shaking Lebanon's stability," the statement said ahead of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday.

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