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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

~Bassem Youssef

Topics: Amazing Arab Before Cinema Comedy Countries Decades East Egypt Egyptian Ever Got Had Hollywood Independence Just Kind Like Maybe Mean Middle Middle East Movies Old Other Our Theater Tradition Very

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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.

~Bassem Youssef

Topics: Chose Dream Egyptian End Make Show Then Tv Tv Show

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If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.

~Cynthia P. Schneider

Topics: About America Aspirations Egypt Egyptian Government He Mean Means Obama Opposing People Policy President President Obama Really Recognize Repeatedly Said Supporting Then Today Will

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Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'

~Cynthia P. Schneider

Topics: Because Egyptian Experts Focused Government His Little Much People Policy Revolution Surprise Taken Too Too Much Voice Washington

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The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Did Egypt Egyptian Guarantee He Left Military Most Negative Once Plays Positive Roles Scene Significant Single Single Thing Thing Victory

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I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Decade Did Egypt Egyptian Elections Favor Favored Free Freely Had Leading Liberal Me Organize Others Remember Right Saying She Them Then Those Time Well Years

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The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Common Egyptian Fighting Government Had Interest Israel Long Maintaining Military Order Terrorism

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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: Accelerate Authoritarian Death Dying Egyptian Experience Greatly Media Regimes Social Social Media

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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Am American American Citizen Born Britain Citizen Egypt Egyptian Great Great Britain Grew Kuwait Lived Malaysia Parents Seventeen Since States United United States Up I Am

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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

~Fidel Castro

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