Opinion
Soft power rivalry in the Maghreb
When a Moroccan chef calls couscous “as Moroccan as the Atlas Mountains,” an Algerian rival is quick to declare it
Nine people were killed and 11 injured in northern Egypt on Saturday, according to health ministry officials, when two minibuses collided on a busy highway in the Nile Delta. The crash in Menoufiya, about 50 miles north of Cairo, was the second deadly accident on the same highway in just a week. On June 27, 19 people were killed, most of them teenage girls working as day laborers, when a truck collided with their minibus.
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