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		<title>Male Belly Dancing Makes Comeback in Egypt, Defying Suppression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Male belly dancing, a centuries-old Egyptian tradition, is making a comeback -- against the odds, considering its periodic suppression by government and religious officials. The problem for Mesbaah is that his craft has long been associated with homosexuality -- a taboo in Egypt.]]></description>
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		<title>Accused Egyptian Blogger Stands Trial</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Egyptian blogger went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife with his Internet writings. Egypt's first prosecution of a blogger came as Washington has backed away from pressuring its Mideast ally to improve its human rights record and bring democratic reform.]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian sect leader sentenced for claiming divinity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Thursday sentenced an Egyptian man to three years and three months in jail for leading an unorthodox sect and claiming divinity.
But the man, trader Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shousha, will serve only a three-month sentence, for possessing an offensive weapon, if he pays a fine of 5,000 pounds ($860), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Conversion&#8217; sparks Copt protest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Egyptian Christians have been protesting at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo.
Demonstrators hurled stones at policemen after they sealed off the cathedral.
The protest were provoked by rumours that the wife of a priest in a town in northern Egypt had been pressured to convert to Islam.
Coptic Christians form an estimated 10% of the [...]]]></description>
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