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<\/a> MOVES-<\/strong> Eric Trager has joined<\/a> the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee\u2019s majority staff as the professional staff member covering the Middle East and North Africa. That makes him a key voice in DC shaping the Senate\u2019s view on all things Egypt. <\/strong>Trager, who has long studied Egypt and was no fan of our Islamist interregnum, was the Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute until 2017. Follow him on Tweeter<\/a> or check out his Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days<\/a>, which got a great review from the Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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