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Margaret Busby
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Some fragments even mimic high-status wall tiles, such as red Egyptian porphyry and African giallo antico marble, styles also seen in Londinium north of the River Thames, the southern English town of Colchester, and Pompeii in Italy.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 20 June 2025
Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
El-Fattah served a five-year sentence for helping to organize a protest outside the Egyptian Parliament in 2013.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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Adjective
The day the Egyptian authorities failed to release Alaa, his mother, the formidable Dr. Laila Soueif, announced a decision that could prove to be both life-changing and life-threatening.
—Margaret Busby
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Some fragments even mimic high-status wall tiles, such as red Egyptian porphyry and African giallo antico marble, styles also seen in Londinium north of the River Thames, the southern English town of Colchester, and Pompeii in Italy.
—Willem Marx, NPR, 20 June 2025
Noun
Abu Jihad al-Masri was allegedly the name of another attacker reportedly killed and was believed to have been an Egyptian.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
El-Fattah served a five-year sentence for helping to organize a protest outside the Egyptian Parliament in 2013.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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“Egyptian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Egyptian. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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