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Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript. Zahi Hawass
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Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. James Buchan
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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
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Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment. Fareed Zakaria
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It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. George W. Bush
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I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. Gilbert Gottfried
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The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood. Laura Bush
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