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Egypt presidential hopeful campaign office torched, Tahrir erupts

Demonstrations erupted in Cairo's Tahrir square Monday night, while in the nearby neihborhood of Dokki, presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq's campaign headquarters was set ablaze.

Rural Egypt breaks from its Islamist past

FIDIMIN, Egypt — This sleepy farming hamlet is where Omar Abdel Rahman — an extremist sheikh now serving time in US federal prison for conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center — gave some of his first fiery sermons. But even as Egypt’s political Islamists rise to power following last year’s ousting of Hosni Mubarak, Fidimin is breaking with its fundamentalist past, giving way to a more pragmatic political landscape ahead of the May 23 presidential election.
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