Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat (L), US president Jimmy Carter and Israeli premier Menachem Begin at the Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement signing in 1979.
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Netanyahu looks to be back in power, but his new far-right coalition partners are likely to make his life difficult.
A 2005 presidential election poster of then-President Hosni Mubarak that said: ‘70 million Egyptian Muslims and Christians say yes to Mubarak.’
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Mubarak used his relationship with the Copts to receive support for his rule, but he did not build institutions that could guarantee Christians constitutional rights.
Hosni Mubarak, the late former President of Egypt.
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Mubarak held power for three decades, on the foundation of a personality cult.
The century since the first world war is littered with the broken promises of Muslim rulers to bring about a transition to more representative forms of government.
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The rise of Islamic State and its declaration of the caliphate can be read as part of a wider story that has unfolded since the formation of modern nation states in the Muslim world.