This response to modernity and to Jews was not predetermined by Egyptian history or culture.
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Voting in that referendum was widely assessed as the freest vote in Egyptian history.
If Mubarak were to die, it would not make a blip in the course of Egyptian history, he said.
Why do hard-boiled analysts, who see right through rigged elections in Russia and Syria, fall for "the biggest crime of fraud in Egyptian history"?
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Two Turkish chemists prescribed penicillin antibiotics without inquiring about any history of allergy, and one Egyptian pharmacy sold a cough suppressant containing oxeladine, a substance banned in many countries over fears that it might cause cancer.
The son of a Swiss pediatrician, Gandur, now 58, grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, where he learned Arabic, fell in love with history and began a lifelong devotion to Egyptian antiquities.
But over the last few weeks, the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace as the Egyptian people demanded their universal rights.
The Egyptian media then portrayed Morsi as "an accident of history, " said Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Dohan Center and the Brookings Institution.
"The average Egyptian is extremely disappointed, seeing this as another chapter in the history of the collapse of Egypt's police forces, " said Mazen Hassan, a political-science professor at Cairo University.
It's got history (two balls and a jack were found in the sarcophagus of an ancient Egyptian prince).
Despite its long history and reputation al-Azhar was badly tainted by its close association with a string of Egyptian rulers, especially during Mr Mubarak's three-decade rule.
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If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
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