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Egypt’s first-ever female governor marches to a different drummer

In a move that broke with a long-standing tradition of appointing retired military or police officers as governors, Nadia Abdu was named governor of Egypt's Beheira governorate.
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Last week, Egypt appointed the country’s first-ever female governor — a post traditionally given to retired military or police officers.

With the Feb. 16 reshuffle of governors, engineer Nadia Abdu, 73, became the first woman in Egypt's history to hold such a leading post. Abdu was named governor for the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira.

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