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Khalid Hassan

Khalid Hassan

Jan 19, 2017

Muslim men attend an evening prayer called "Tarawih", during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Al-Rifai Mosque in the old Islamic area of Cairo, Egypt July 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RTX2JFE9 — Muslim men attend evening prayer during the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Rifai Mosque in the old Islamic area of Cairo, July 2, 2016. — REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

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A fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact is displayed at the opening of the "Repatriated Objects Temporary Exhibition" at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, January 14, 2016. The exhibition features more than a hundred antiquities returned from France, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Austria, Belgium and South Africa. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih - RTX22DIA

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A picture taken from the Salaheddine Citadel shows Al-Rifai Mosque and the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, Egypt, June 17, 2015.

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An Egyptian worker carries out restoration work at Moses Maimonides Temple, the first Jewish temple to be built in Egypt during the 19th Century, in Cairo August 20, 2009, Dr. Zahi Hawas, the Secretary General of the Higher Antiquities Authority inspected the restoration project of the temple on Thursday, Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, or the acronym the Rambam, was born in Cordoba, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204 and was a doctor of the al-Sultan Sal

Egypt registers its Jewish artifacts

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Security guard the main gate of the closed Islamic Art Museum, which was damaged by a car bomb attack targeting the nearby Cairo Security Directorate on Friday, in downtown Cairo January 26, 2014. Egypt will hold a presidential vote before electing parliament, President Adly Mansour said on Sunday, reneging on a roadmap and increasing the likelihood that army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be elected as head of state within months. Parliamentary elections were supposed to happen first under the tim

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