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Such was Ataturk's Turkey, probably the initiator of this model in Middle East, and later Nasser's Egypt, Baathist regimes in their initial stages, and Algeria under FLN. ... It's not very difficult to contrast the evolution that shut Egypt into its blind alley to the path chosen by..

rising restrictions on religion

Many of Egypt were directed at Coptic Christians, government officials often tried to prevent Coptic Christians from improving existing churches or constructing new ones. Officials in Arbaeen District of Assiut governorate Upper Egypt, for example, have long refused to grant building..

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