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Dec 2023
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Egypt’s presidential election results an...

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Yossi Mekelberg discusses the weekend developments in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Plus: the latest on Egypt’s presidential election results, the Wagner group’s gold trade operations in Africa, a flip through the papers with Vincent McAviney and theatre news with Matt Wolf, a critic at ‘The New York Times’. 

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