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Coverage of the 10-year anniversary of the Arab Spring is still going strong<\/strong>, with the Financial<\/a>Times<\/a> profiling activists in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya and Syria a decade after the uprisings, taking stock of what has been gained and lost.<\/p>\n

Also making headlines: <\/strong>The latest in the TikTok saga<\/a> (two influencers whose sentences were overturned last week remain in jail, now on charges of human trafficking), the 50-year anniversary of the Aswan Dam<\/a>, and National Geographic<\/a>\u2019s latest on Egyptology as a field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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