Iraq is likely to hear similar advice from other Arab governments, according to the BBC's Cairo correspondent, Heba Saleh.

BBC: Cautious Arab response to UN move

Our correspondent in Cairo, Heba Saleh, said Mr Mubarak refused to criticise the US for not exerting more pressure on Israel.

BBC: Key leaders absent from Arab summit

The BBC's Heba Saleh said the move appeared to be an effort to assuage public anger over a perceived increase in violent crime in the country.

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Her brother, Hassan, and her sister, Heba, have also been involved with the enterprise, listed for years as associate editors of its main product, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Threat of Sharia is Real

The BBC's correspondent in Cairo, Heba Saleh, says the Egyptian authorities have always argued that a party based on religion would deepen sectarian divisions in a country with a sizeable Christian minority.

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In the Ministry of Housing's dim halls that seem like a throwback to better days in the 1950s, Heba Abdelfadel, an architect and consultant for the division of the ministry that headed Cairo 2050, hunches over blueprints of a slum where she hopes to create wider roads in order to open the community to commerce.

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