From the web: “A fight over land rights shaped by wars, an uprising and power politics”

“We were there for him when he needed us,” says Helaly Said al-Anwar, recalling his military service under Gamal Abdel Nasser. An army scout, Anwar served two years in Yemen and three years in the Sinai. Tens of thousands of Egyptian soldiers never returned from these disastrous wars.

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Paul Sedra

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