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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Wrecked U.S.-Egypt Ties]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/obama-wrecked-us-egypt-ties-12573</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, during a call with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, President Obama outlined a mixed, but nonetheless significant shift in U.S. policy towards Egypt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Just Made a Terrible Mistake on Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115115/obama-cuts-egypt-aid-why-hell-regret-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a certain sense, the Obama administration&rsquo;s decision to withhold much of the $1.3 billion in annual aid given to Egypt isn&rsquo;t surprising. U.S. law mandates cutting off aid to countries in which a coup has taken place, and the Egyptian military&rsquo;s ouster of President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think Again: The Muslim Brotherhood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/28/think_again_the_muslim_brotherhood_egypt</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't kid yourself. Long before the Jan. 25 revolution that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, many academics and policymakers argued that his main adversary -- the Muslim Brotherhood -- had made its peace with democracy. This was based on the assumption that, since the Muslim...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Won't Morsi Back Down? Read His Resume]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/110614/what-know-why-morsi-wont-back-down-read-his-resume</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the moment that tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to protest President Mohamed Morsi&rsquo;s power-grabbing constitutional declaration, western journalists largely assumed that Morsi would back down. From their vantage point, criticism of Morsi&rsquo;s move from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to Egypt's Doomed Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/world/99981/egypt-arab-spring-tahrir-obama-administration</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exactly one year ago today, I stood in front of the Lawyers Syndicate in downtown Cairo and watched as a few thousand protesters suddenly streamed into the area from the north, overwhelmed Egypt&rsquo;s notoriously violent riot police, and pushed onward towards Tahrir Square. That...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse vs. the Islamists in Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/07/01/2011-07-01_mickey_mouse_runs_afoul_of_the_islamists_in_egypt_but_in_a_democracy_sharia_has_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Trager</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the months since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egypt's liberals have feared the rising influence of Islamists. Last Friday, billionaire liberal party leader Naguib Sawiris expressed this fear comically. On his well-followed Twitter feed, the Coptic Christian Sawiris posted an image of a...]]></description>
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