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2012–13 Egyptian protests

Index 2012–13 Egyptian protests

The 2012–13 Egyptian protests were part of a large scale popular uprising in Egypt against then-President Mohamed Morsi. [1]

163 relations: Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, Abu Musallam incident, Adly Mansour, Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed el-Tayeb, Ahmed Shafik, Al Arabiya, Al Bernameg, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, Al-Ahram, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Al-Nour Party, Amr Moussa, Anarchism in Egypt, April 6 Youth Movement, Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam, Asphyxia, Associated Press, Atef Helmy, August 2012 Sinai attack, Bassem Youssef, Beheira Governorate, Black bloc, Black Standard, Building and Development Party, Cairo University, Camp David Accords, Christianity in Egypt, Civil disobedience, Civil resistance, CNN, Constitution of Egypt, Damanhur, Demonstration (protest), Egypt Independent, Egyptian Armed Forces, Egyptian Army, Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012, Egyptian Constitution of 2012, Egyptian constitutional referendum, 2012, Egyptian constitutional referendum, 2014, Egyptian crisis (2011–14), Egyptian Football Association, Egyptian Judges' Club, Egyptian National Police, Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015, ..., Egyptian Popular Current, Egyptian presidential election, 2012, Egyptian presidential election, 2014, Egyptian revolution of 2011, El-Sayyid el-Badawi, Essam el-Erian, Feminism in Egypt, Flag desecration, Flag of the United States, Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt), Freedom of speech, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Haaretz, Hamas, Hamdeen Sabahi, Hasan Shahhata, Heliopolis Palace, Heliopolis, Cairo, Hesham Qandil, Hisham Zazou, HuffPost, India Today, Innocence of Muslims, Internet activism, Internet Archive, Islam, Islamism, Ismailia, Ittihad El Shorta, June 2013 Egyptian protests, Kefaya, Khairat el-Shater, Liberalism in Egypt, Luxor massacre, Mahmoud Mekki, Mansoura, Egypt, Marine Security Guard, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Egypt), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt), Ministry of Defence and Military Production, Ministry of Health and Population (Egypt), Ministry of Tourism (Egypt), Mohab Mamish, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Mohamed Arab, Mohamed ElBaradei, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mohamed Kamel Amr, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammed Badie, Mokattam, Molotov cocktail, Mona Chalabi, Monufia Governorate, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Multinational Force and Observers, Muslim Brotherhood, National Salvation Front (Egypt), New Wafd Party, Operation Anti Sexual Harassment, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Port Said, Port Said Stadium riot, Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014), Qandil Cabinet, Qasr El Nil Bridge, Rafah, Rafik Habib, Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, Republican Guard (Egypt), Rubber bullet, Salafi movement, Sami Hafez Anan, Secularism, Secularism in Egypt, Sedki Sobhy, Sexual assault, Shahada, Sharia, Sheikh Zuweid, Sherine Tadros, Shia Islam, Shotgun shell, Shura Council, Sinai insurgency, Sinai Peninsula, Socialist Popular Alliance Party, Strike action, Suez, Supreme Constitutional Court (Egypt), Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Syrian Civil War, Tahrir Square, Tamarod, Tear gas, The Daily Beast, The Daily Show, The Guardian, The Hindu, The Independent, The Irish Times, The New York Times, The News International, The Washington Times, Time (magazine), Tzipi Livni, Wadi el-Natrun prison, Xinhua News Agency, Zagazig, Zawahiri, 2008 Egyptian general strike, 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. Expand index (113 more) »

Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen

Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen (born June 3, 1949) is a Lieutenant General of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي,; born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician who is the current sixth President of Egypt, in office since 2014.

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Abdel Meguid Mahmoud

Abdel Meguid Mahmoud (عبد المجيد محمود; born 1946) was the Egypt Attorney General from 2006 to 5 July 2013.

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Abu Musallam incident

The Abu Musallam incident was an event where a large group 3000 people, including Salafist Muslims, killed a small group of Shias in their home in a suburb of Cairo on June 23 2013.

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Adly Mansour

Adly Mahmoud Mansour (عدلى محمود منصور; born 23 December 1945) is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as President (or Chief Justice) of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.

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Ahmed Abdullah

Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland; May 10, 1947) is a jazz trumpeter who was a prominent member of Sun Ra's band.

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Ahmed el-Tayeb

Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb (أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب) (born January 6, 1946) is the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar and former president of al-Azhar University.

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Ahmed Shafik

Ahmed Mohamed Shafik ZakiAlso spelled: Shafiq.

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Al Arabiya

Al Arabiya (العربية, transliterated: or; meaning "The Arabic One" or "The Arab One") is a Saudi-owned pan-Arab television news channel broadcast in Modern Standard Arabic.

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Al Bernameg

Al-Bernameg (البرنامج, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, literally "The Show") was an Egyptian news satire program.

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international state-funded 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel owned and operated by Al Jazeera Media Network, headquartered in Doha, Qatar.

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Al-Ahram

Al-Ahram (الأهرام; The Pyramids), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828).

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Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya

(الجماعة الإسلامية, "the Islamic Group"; also transliterated El Gama'a El Islamiyya; also called "Islamic Groups" and transliterated Gamaat Islamiya, al Jamaat al Islamiya) is an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement, and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

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Al-Masry Al-Youm

Al-Masry Al-Youm (المصرى اليوم,, meaning The Egyptian Today) is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004.

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Al-Nour Party

The al‑Nour Party (Ḥizb al-Nūr), or "Party of The Light", is one of the political parties created in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

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Amr Moussa

Amr Moussa (عمرو محمد موسى,, Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 to 1 June 2011.

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Anarchism in Egypt

Anarchism in Egypt refers both to the historical Egyptian anarchist movement which emerged in the 1860s and lasted until the 1940s, and to the anarchist movement as it has re-emerged in the early 2000s.

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April 6 Youth Movement

The April 6 Youth Movement (حركة شباب 6 أبريل) is an Egyptian activist group established in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.

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Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam

(الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام, "the people want to bring down the regime") is a political slogan associated with the Arab Spring.

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Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atef Helmy

Atef Helmy (عاطف حلمي; born 23 April 1950) is an Egyptian communication and technology expert and the former minister of communications and information technology.

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August 2012 Sinai attack

The August 2012 Sinai attack occurred on 5 August 2012, when armed men ambushed an Egyptian military base in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 16 soldiers and stealing two armored cars, which they used to infiltrate into Israel.

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Bassem Youssef

Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف,; born 22 March 1974) is an Egyptian comedian, writer, producer, surgeon, physician, media critic, and television host, who hosted El-Bernameg (The Show), a satirical news program, from 2011 to 2014.

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Beheira Governorate

Beheira Governorate (محافظة البحيرة,, "the Lake") is a coastal governorate in Egypt.

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Black bloc

A black bloc is a name given to groups of protesters who wear black clothing, scarves, sunglasses, ski masks, motorcycle helmets with padding, or other face-concealing and face-protecting items.

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Black Standard

The Black Banner or Black Standard (الراية السوداء rāyat as-sawdāʾ, also known as راية العقاب. rāyat al-ʿuqāb "banner of the eagle" or simply as "the banner") is one of the flags flown by Muhammad in Islamic tradition.

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Building and Development Party

The Building and Development Party (Hizb el-Benaa wa el-Tanmia, alternatively translated as Construction and Development Party) is an Islamist political party in Egypt.

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Cairo University

Cairo University (جامعة القاهرة, known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University from 1940 to 1952) is Egypt's premier public university.

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Camp David Accords

The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.

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Christianity in Egypt

Christianity is second biggest religion in Egypt.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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Civil resistance

Civil resistance is political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by civil groups to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Constitution of Egypt

The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the fundamental law of Egypt.

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Damanhur

Damanhur (دمنهور,; Egyptian: Dmỉ-n-Ḥr.w ; Ⲡⲓϯⲙⲓⲛ̀ϩⲱⲣ; Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά) is a city in Lower Egypt, and the capital of the Beheira Governorate.

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Demonstration (protest)

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.

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Egypt Independent

Egypt Independent is an online newspaper that formerly published a weekly 24-page English-language edition of the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm.

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Egyptian Armed Forces

The Egyptian Armed Forces are the state military organisation responsible for the defence of Egypt.

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Egyptian Army

The Egyptian Army is the largest service branch within the Egyptian Armed Forces.

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Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012

The Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012 (CA) is the committee for the creation of a new Constitution of Egypt.

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Egyptian Constitution of 2012

The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt was the former fundamental law of Egypt.

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Egyptian constitutional referendum, 2012

A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt in two rounds on 15 and 22 December 2012.

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Egyptian constitutional referendum, 2014

A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt on 14 and 15 January 2014 and with Egyptians abroad voting between 8 and 12 January.

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Egyptian crisis (2011–14)

The Egyptian crisis began with the Egyptian revolution of 2011, when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in an ideologically and socially diverse mass protest movement that ultimately forced longtime president Hosni Mubarak from office.

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Egyptian Football Association

The Egyptian Football Association (EFA; الإتحاد المصري لكرة القدم) is the governing body of football in Egypt.

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Egyptian Judges' Club

The Egyptian Judges' Club (Nadi al Quda) was founded in Cairo, Egypt in 1939, primarily as a social club for judges.

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Egyptian National Police

Egyptian National Police or ENP is a department of the Ministry of Interior of Egypt.

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Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015

Egyptian parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives were held in two phases, from 17 October to 2 December 2015.

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Egyptian Popular Current

The Egyptian Popular Current (التيار الشعبي المصري) is a movement in Egypt, created after the 2012 presidential elections by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi.

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Egyptian presidential election, 2012

A presidential election was held in Egypt in two rounds, the first on 23 and 24 May 2012 and the second on 16 and 17 June.

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Egyptian presidential election, 2014

A presidential election in Egypt took place between 26 and 28 May 2014.

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Egyptian revolution of 2011

The Egyptian revolution of 2011, locally known as the January 25 Revolution (ثورة 25 يناير), and as the Egyptian Revolution of Dignity began on 25 January 2011 and took place across all of Egypt.

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El-Sayyid el-Badawi

El-Sayyid el-Badawi Shehata (السيد البدوى شحاتة) (born 1950) is an Egyptian businessman and the President of Al-Wafd Party.

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Essam el-Erian

Dr.

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Feminism in Egypt

Feminism in Egypt has involved a number of social and political groups throughout its history.

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Flag desecration

Flag desecration is a term applied to the desecration of flags or violation of flag protocol, a various set of acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public.

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Flag of the United States

The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States.

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Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) (Ḥizb al-Ḥurriya wa al-’Adala) is an Egyptian Islamist political party.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.

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Grand Imam of al-Azhar

The Grand Imam of al-Azhar (Arabic: الإمام الأكبر), also known as Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar (Arabic: شيخ الأزهر الشريف), currently Ahmed el-Tayeb, is a prestigious Sunni Islam title and a prominent official title in Egypt.

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Haaretz

Haaretz (הארץ) (lit. "The Land ", originally Ḥadashot Ha'aretz – חדשות הארץ, – "News of the Land ") is an Israeli newspaper.

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Hamas

Hamas (Arabic: حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist organization.

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Hamdeen Sabahi

Hamdeen Sabahi (حمدين صباحى Ḥamdīn Ṣabāhī,; born 5 July 1954) is an Egyptian politician, journalist and poet.

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Hasan Shahhata

Hassan Bin Muhamad Bin Shehata Bin Mousa al-Anani, known as Sheikh Hassan Shehata (حسن بن محمد بن شحاتة بن موسى العناني) (November 10, 1946 - June 23, 2013) was an ex-Sunni, who later converted to Shia Islam, scholar who was killed in the small village of Zawyat Abu Musalam in Giza by a mob.

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Heliopolis Palace

The Heliopolis Palace is one of the three Egyptian presidential palaces and residences, the others being Montaza Palace and Ras el-Tin Palace, for the executive office of the President of Egypt.

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Heliopolis, Cairo

Heliopolis (مصر الجديدة,,, "New Egypt") was a suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo as a district of the city and is one of the more affluent areas of Cairo.

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Hesham Qandil

Hesham Mohamed Kandil or Kandeel (also spelled: Hisham Qandil or Qandeel ; هشام محمد قنديل) (born 17 September 1962) is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013.

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Hisham Zazou

Hisham Zazou (هشام زعزوع; born 1954) is an Egyptian businessman and politician who has been serving as the minister of tourism since 2012.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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India Today

India Today is an Indian English-language fortnightly news magazine and news television channel.

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Innocence of Muslims

Innocence of Muslims is an anti-Islamic short film that was written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.

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Internet activism

Internet activism (also known as web activism, online activism, digital campaigning, digital activism, online organizing, electronic advocacy, cyberactivism, e-campaigning, and e-activism) is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences as well as coordination.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Islamism

Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.

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Ismailia

Ismailia (الإسماعيلية) is a city in north-eastern Egypt.

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Ittihad El Shorta

Ittihad El Shorta (نادي إتحاد الشرطة), also known as Police Union, or simply El Shorta, is an Egyptian football club based in Cairo, Egypt.

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June 2013 Egyptian protests

The June 2013 protests were mass protests that occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's inauguration as president.

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Kefaya

Kefaya (كفاية kefāya,, "enough") is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change (الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer), a grassroots coalition which prior to the 2011 revolution drew its support from across Egypt's political spectrum.

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Khairat el-Shater

Mohammed Khairat Saad el-Shater (محمد خيرت سعد الشاطر,; born 4 May 1950) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and Islamist political activist.

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Liberalism in Egypt

Liberalism in Egypt or Egyptian liberalism is a political ideology that traces its beginnings to the 19th century.

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Luxor massacre

The Luxor massacre was the killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt.

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Mahmoud Mekki

Mahmoud Mekki (محمود محمود أحمد مكي; born 1954) is an Egyptian politician who served as the 17th Vice President of Egypt from August 2012 to December 2012.

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Mansoura, Egypt

El-Mansoura (المنصورة,, rural) is a city in Egypt, with a population of 960,423.

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Marine Security Guard

A Marine Security Guard (MSG), also known as a Marine Embassy Guard, is a member of the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group (formerly Marine Security Guard Battalion), a battalion-sized organization of U.S. Marines whose detachments provide security at American embassies, American consulates and other official United States Government offices such as the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Egypt)

This is a list of ministers heading the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt.

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Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Egypt)

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) is the government body responsible for information and communications technology (ICT) issues in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

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Ministry of Defence and Military Production

The Egyptian Ministry of Defence is the ministry responsible for the Egyptian Armed Forces organization and manages its affairs and maintains its facilities.

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Ministry of Health and Population (Egypt)

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has its headquarters in Cairo.

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Ministry of Tourism (Egypt)

The Ministry of Tourism of Egypt is part of the Cabinet of Egypt and is responsible for tourism in Egypt.

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Mohab Mamish

Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish (مهاب مميش; born 6 August 1948) is the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority.

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Mohamed Abou El-Ghar

Dr.

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Mohamed Arab

Mohamed Saber Ibrahim Arab (born 23 December 1948) is a veteran politician, who has served as Egypt's former minister of culture in different cabinets, including the Beblawi cabinet.

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Mohamed ElBaradei

Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei (محمد مصطفى البرادعى,,; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who was the last Vice-President of Egypt serving on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013.

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Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Soliman (محمد حسين طنطاوى سليمان,; born 31 October 1935) is an Egyptian field marshal and former politician.

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Mohamed Kamel Amr

Mohamed Kamel Amr (Arabic: محمد کامل عمرو, born 1 December 1942) is an Egyptian diplomat who served as Egypt's minister of foreign affairs from 2011 to 2013.

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Mohamed Morsi

Mohamed MorsiThe spellings of his first and last names vary.

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Mohammed Badie

Mohammed Badie (محمد بديع,; born 7 August 1943) is the eighth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Mokattam

The Mokattam (المقطم, also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of a range of hills and a suburb in them, located in southeastern Cairo, Egypt.

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Molotov cocktail

A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, bottle bomb, poor man's grenade, Molotovin koktaili (Finnish), polttopullo (Finnish), fire bomb (not to be confused with an actual fire bomb) or just Molotov, commonly shortened as Molly, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons.

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Mona Chalabi

Mona Chalabi (born 11 February 1987) is a British data journalist, known for her publications with FiveThirtyEight and The Guardian.

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Monufia Governorate

Monufia Governorate (محافظة المنوفية) is one of the governorates of Egypt.

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Muhammad al-Zawahiri

Muhammad Rabee al-Zawahiri (born 1953) is an Egyptian Islamist who was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA prior to the 2001 War on Terror.

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Multinational Force and Observers

The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is an international peacekeeping force overseeing the terms of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

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Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (جماعة الإخوان المسلمين), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.

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National Salvation Front (Egypt)

The National Salvation Front (also known as the National Front for Salvation of the Revolution or the National Rescue Front, جبهة الإنقاذ الوطني) is an alliance of Egyptian political parties, formed to defeat Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's 22 November 2012 constitutional declaration.

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New Wafd Party

The New Wafd Party ("New Delegation Party"; Ḥizb Al-Wafd Al-Jadīd), also known as the Al-Wafd Party, is a nationalist liberal party in Egypt.

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Operation Anti Sexual Harassment

Operation Anti Sexual Harassment, (Arabic: قوة ضد التحرش, transliterated: Quwwa did al-taharrush, also known as OpAntiSH) is an activist group in Cairo, Egypt, whose goal is to prevent sexual harassment and assault, and in particular the mass sexual assaults that occur during protests and religious festivals.

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Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, a faith with ancient Christian roots in Egypt.

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Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

This article uses dates and years written in the Coptic calendar, using the A.M. (Anno Martyrum) calendar era, in addition to the Gregorian calendar, using the A.D. calendar era. Pope Tawadros II (Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲑⲉⲟ́ⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲙⲁϩ ⲃ̅ Papa Abba Theódōrōs II; البابا تواضروس الثاني al-Bābā Tawāḍurūs al-ṯhānī, English: Pope Theodore II) (born 4 November 1952; 25 Paopi 1668) is the 118th and current Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, succeeding the late Pope Shenouda III as leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

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Port Said

Port Said (بورسعيد, the first syllable has its pronunciation from Arabic; unurbanized local pronunciation) is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787 (2010).

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Port Said Stadium riot

On 1 February 2012, a massive riot occurred at Port Said Stadium in Port Said, Egypt, following an Egyptian Premier League football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly.

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Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)

Protests against the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état erupted in July 2013.

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Qandil Cabinet

The cabinet of Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was presented on 2 August 2012.

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Qasr El Nil Bridge

The Qasr El Nil Bridge (originally named Khedive Ismail Bridge), also commonly spelled Kasr El Nil Bridge, is a historic structure dating to 1931 and replaced the first bridge to span the Nile River in central Cairo, Egypt.

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Rafah

Rafah (رفح) is a Palestinian city and refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Rafik Habib

Rafik Habib (born in 1959) is an Egyptian political researcher, and analyst, sometimes described as a Coptic intellectual.

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Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed

Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed (Arabic: رضا محمود حافظ) (born 3 March 1952 - 3 December 2013) was the commander of the Egyptian Air Force.

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Republican Guard (Egypt)

The Egyptian Republican Guard is a Division level command within the Egyptian Army, designed to be an armored division with the main responsibility to defend the President of the Republic, the major presidential and strategic institutions, including the Presidential Palaces, Command centers, presidential airports.

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Rubber bullet

Rubber bullets (also called rubber baton rounds) are rubber or rubber-coated projectiles that can be fired from either standard firearms or dedicated riot guns.

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Salafi movement

The Salafi movement or Salafist movement or Salafism is a reform branch or revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Egypt in the late 19th century as a response to European imperialism.

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Sami Hafez Anan

Lieutenant General Sami Hafez Anan or Enan (سامى حافظ عنان,; born 2 February 1948) is an Egyptian military officer.

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Secularism

Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institution and religious dignitaries (the attainment of such is termed secularity).

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Secularism in Egypt

Secularism in Egypt has had a very important role to play in both the history of Egypt and that of the Middle East.

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Sedki Sobhy

Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmad (صدقى صبحى سيد أحمد) (born 12 December 1955) is an Egyptian General who has been Minister of Defence of Egypt since 2014.

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Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.

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Shahada

The Shahada (الشهادة,"the testimony").

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Sharia

Sharia, Sharia law, or Islamic law (شريعة) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.

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Sheikh Zuweid

Sheikh Zuweid (also spelled Sheikh Zoweid or Shaykh Zuwayd; الشيخ زويد) is a Bedouin town in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt near the border with the Gaza Strip.

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Sherine Tadros

Sherine Tadros is the Head of New York (UN) Office at Amnesty International.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Shotgun shell

A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge typically loaded with multiple metallic "shot", which are small, generally spherical projectiles.

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Shura Council

The Shura Council (مجلس الشورى,, "consultative council") was the upper house of the formerly bicameral Parliament of Egypt.

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Sinai insurgency

The Sinai insurgency is an ongoing conflict in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, between Islamist militants and Egyptian security forces, which has included attacks on civilians.

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Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or simply Sinai (now usually) is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.

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Socialist Popular Alliance Party

The Socialist People's Alliance Party (حزب التحالف الشعبي الإشتراكي Hizb Al-Tahalof Al-Shaeby Al-Ishtiraky, SPAP) is a leftist party in Egypt formed shortly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Suez

Suez (السويس; Egyptian Arabic) is a seaport city (population ca. 497,000) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate.

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Supreme Constitutional Court (Egypt)

The Supreme Constitutional Court (المحكمة الدستورية العليا, El Mahkama El Dustūrīya El ‘Ulyā) is an independent judicial body in Egypt, located in the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

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Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF; المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة,, also Higher Council of the Armed Forces) is a statutory body of between 20 and 25 senior Egyptian military officers and is headed by Field Marshal Abdul Fatah al-Sisi and Lieutenant General Sedki Sobhi.

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Syrian Civil War

The Syrian Civil War (الحرب الأهلية السورية, Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah) is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing both the government and each other in varying combinations.

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Tahrir Square

Tahrir Square (ميدان التحرير,, English: Liberation Square), also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt.

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Tamarod

Tamarod (تـمـرد tamarrud, "rebellion") is an Egyptian grassroots movement that was founded to register opposition to President Mohamed Morsi and force him to call early presidential elections.

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Tear gas

Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymator agent or lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima, meaning "tear"), sometimes colloquially known as mace,"Mace" is a brand name for a tear gas spray is a chemical weapon that causes severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and even blindness.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The News International

The News International, published in broadsheet size, is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan.

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The Washington Times

The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on American politics.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tzipi Livni

Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni (ציפורה מלכה "ציפי" לבני; born 8 July 1958) is a prominent Israeli politician and former Foreign Minister of Israel.

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Wadi el-Natrun prison

The Wadi el-Natrun prison is an Egyptian prison complex in the Beheira Governorate, north of Cairo.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English) or New China News Agency is the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China.

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Zagazig

Zagazig (الزقازيق, rural) is a city in Lower Egypt.

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Zawahiri

al-Zawahiri (الظواهري, aẓ-Ẓawāhirī) is an Arabic surname or nisbah derived from name of the town of Zawahir, Saudi Arabia.

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2008 Egyptian general strike

The 2008 Egyptian general strike was a strike which occurred on 6 April 2008, by Egyptian workers, primarily in the state-run textile industry, in response to low wages and rising food costs.

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2013 Egyptian coup d'état

On 3 July 2013, Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012–13_Egyptian_protests

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