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A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Feb 18, 2021

Umm Yasser, an Egyptian Bedouin woman guide from the Hamada tribe, prepares tea for a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu in South Sinai governorate on March 29, 2019, during the first "Sinai Trail" led by Bedouin women guides. - In Wadi Sahu, a village in the southern part of Egypt's eastern Sinai peninsula, made up of humble shacks with corrugated iron and recycled scraps, Bedouins are banking on the return of tourism after the tumultuous years since Egypt's 2011 uprising. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) — Umm Yasser, an Egyptian Bedouin female guide from the Hamada tribe, prepares tea for a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu, during the first "Sinai Trail" led by Bedouin female guides, in south Sinai governorate, Egypt, March 29, 2019. — Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images)

Sinai initiative targets tribal weddings with push for official documents

Reham Mokbel

Children of families of Islamic State militants are see after they surrender themselves to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in al-Ayadiya, northwest of Tal Afar, Iraq August 30, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1E67598CF0

Iraq seeks to issue identification papers for IS children

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

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

Will investors shell out cash for Egyptian citizenship?

Safiaa Mounir

The Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan is seen in the background as people walk on a promenade on the surrounding walls of Jerusalem's Old City November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC2F6D9MOPO2

Stateless Jerusalemites call on Jordan to restore their citizenship

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics