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Cairo University echoed with cheers in June 2009 when President Barack Obama addressed his audience with the Muslim greeting, assalamu aleikum, peace be upon you.
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On the day before he was sworn in on June 30 as Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president, Mohamed Mursi walked onto a stage in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and threw open his blazer.
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George Mitchell , the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East, has resigned, President Barack Obama announced today.
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A year after the so-called Arab Spring blossomed in Tunisia and spread with enthusiastic Western support, developments in the region signal a protracted crisis that could threaten Arab-Israeli peace, world oil supplies and the U.S. fight against terrorism.
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The victory of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi in Egypt’s presidential election will re-establish the stability the U.S. seeks in the Middle Eastern nation, if only temporarily.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Israeli rhetoric fuels his popularity in the Arab world as he seeks to become a leader in the region. He’s increasingly antagonizing the West as he takes on that role.
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President Barack Obama said his national security adviser James Jones will leave the administration later this month and be replaced by his deputy, Tom Donilon .
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The U.S. special envoy to Libyan opposition leaders has one overarching task: to figure out exactly who they are.
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President Barack Obama now confronts a changing Islamic world that’s far more tumultuous than the one he faced when he took office for his first term.
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Cairo’s six-story Arcadia Mall, a symbol of modern commerce on the Nile River, is a charred ruin. Military officers now rule in place of Western-educated businessmen. Spending by a government that is already in debt is heading up, not down.
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