The musical centers of the Third World--such as Cairo, Bombay, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, and pre-Castro Havana--have been heterogeneous and cosmopolitan cities that welcomed new ideas and new technologies from outside.
But just as Cairo's sham seatbelts will not save lives, the government may need more than gestures to convince an increasingly restless parliament and public that it knows where it is going.
Many point to Mr. Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo as a pivotal moment that set high hopes.
The sentences were handed down in a packed courtroom in Cairo as victims' relatives and those convicted wept.
Bisou, a Persian, climbed into her owner's bag in Cairo as she was packing for a trip to visit her sister in Nottinghamshire.
If Thursday's address is viewed as just "another Cairo speech, forget it, " said Muasher, now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Hossein, who has a day job as a doctor in Cairo, posted the document on the software dubbed FinFisher on his blog, here.
In 2011, the campaign had its second success by raising enough money from the public to finance the acquisition of a collection known as The Treasures of Cairo.
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While the reporters on the scene in Cairo serve as a rebuke to the notion of journalistic cowardice, the international media's tepid and superficial coverage of their brutalization at the hands of the demonstrators shares important features with the negligence of CNN in Iraq and the reporters in Ramallah.
As the retrial was about to begin, one man in Cairo who gave his name as Ahmed said the retrial was no longer the pressing issue for Egypt.
Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah said he was referring the trial to the Cairo appeals court as he felt "unease" in reviewing the case.
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Another 10 are suffering smoke inhalation after a fire gutted the three-story building housing the Egyptian Football Association in a wealthy Cairo neighborhood, as soccer fans looked on.
The oldest surviving universities in the world today are in the region, such as Al-Azhar in Cairo, and polymaths from Edward Said to the inventor of ice-cream cones can be traced there.
So as I said in the Cairo speech, there's no contradiction between America and Islam because we have Muslim Americans who actually have higher education and income averages than is the average in the United States.
Many in Cairo saw the Brothers as opportunists who had dodged the square in order to focus on their own campaign.
Also Tuesday, Rice visited Cairo, Egypt, as part of a brief tour of the Middle East ahead of NATO ministerial meetings later this week in Brussels, Belgium.
In her opening statement, Ambassador Maria Francesca Spatolisano from the European Union underlined the importance of this conference as a follow up to the Cairo declaration adopted at the Second European Union-League of Arab States Foreign Affairs Ministerial meeting in Egypt in November.
Following the ceremony at the high court that confirmed him as president, Mr. Morsi rode in a presidential motorcade to Cairo University, his alma mater, for his first public address as president.
After graduation and a few years at a newspaper in Indiana, Khalil moved to Cairo in 1997 to work as a freelance reporter.
For instance, he could have mentioned - as Obama did in his speech in Cairo in June 2009 - that Muslim societies under-invest in education relative to non-Muslim societies.
Several thousand supporters of Al-Ahly, as well as political activists, marched from the Cairo football club to the office of the general prosecutor on Thursday, in commemoration of those who died at the Port Said stadium.
Cairo (CNN) -- Two people were killed and at least 15 injured Saturday in Cairo, officials said, as Egyptians in two rival cities took to the streets to vent their anger over court verdicts in a controversial case involving deadly riots at a soccer game.
The echoes of his Cairo speech seemed very faint indeed as neither Obama nor Mohammed Morsy, Egypt's new president, seemed to know how to characterize the U.S. relationship with that country, once an important ally in the region.
When I'd booked my ticket to Cairo a few months earlier, I had envisioned a pleasant week and a half spent wandering around the city, meeting up with old friends and gathering material for a novel that was inspired in part by my time as a student at the American University of Cairo.
As I absorbed these words, the thrum of Cairo beat in my ears.
"We are heading directly to Israel to join the members of our church as soon as we get our passports sent to us from Cairo, " said Michel Louis, the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Boston.
The following afternoon, as I celebrated Rosh Hashanah by myself in Old Cairo, I kept coming back to that story, to the bravery of those six or seven people who protected the holy place of another faith while their own country was in the throes of revolution.
Monday's incident occurred as the army train was heading from Upper Egypt into Cairo.
The American University in Cairo also condemned Mr Ibrahim's arrest as a threat to academic freedom in Egypt.
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