Parliament puts price on Egyptian citizenship - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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A Palestinian woman holds her passport during a rally at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza calling on Egypt to open the crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 6, 2017.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said recent talks in Egypt could lead to improving the humanitarian suffering in the impoverished Gaza Strip. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images) — A Palestinian woman holds her Egyptian passport during a rally at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, Gaza Strip, July 6, 2017. — SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian man shows his passport after voting in a referendum on his country's new constitution at the Egyptian embassy in Amman January 9, 2014. Egyptians living outside the country on Wednesday began voting in a referendum on the new constitution. The referendum marks the first time Egyptians have voted since the removal of President Mohamed Mursi in July, and is seen as much as a public vote of confidence on the roadmap and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the constitution itself. REUTERS/Majed Jaber

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