Buck, a graduate student then working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis, met Maree, a 23-year-old Egyptian veterinary student, in Mahalla.

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Buck was working on a multimedia project on Egypt's "new leftists and the blogosphere" as part of his master's degree thesis.

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