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Dina Habib Powell: McMaster’s Huma Abedin This is what the swamp looks like. August 11, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. The media dubbed her the Republican Huma Abedin. She’s been one of the most powerful women in two Republican administrations. She’s friends with Valerie Jarrett. And you’ve never heard her name. Flash back to the spring of this year. Cameras flashed as Aya Hijazi sat next to President Trump. Media reports described her as an imprisoned rescue worker...

In a video posted on her Facebook page on September 21, New York-based Egyptian-American activist Ayat Oraby called the Coptic church "a gang, striving to establish a Coptic mini-state," and "a full-fledged mafia," and described Pope Tawadros as "a criminal." Oraby called upon Muslims to participate in an economic boycott of Copts, saying that: "They must be made to understand that the crescent must be on top of the cross."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dina Powell, an American of Egyptian descent who speaks fluent Arabic, will be named to a top State Department public diplomacy job Monday as the White House seeks to improve its image in the Arab world, U.S. officials said. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will announce the choice of Powell, head of personnel at the White House, to be assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and deputy under secretary of state for public diplomacy at noon, the officials said. Powell, who came to the United States from Egypt as a child, will serve as...

An armed assault on a Nasr City villa ended with the kidnapping of an Egyptian-American six-year-old. Gihan Shahine investigates a cross-cultural custody battle that has turned unexpectedly violent. "I can't sleep until I know where my son is," said Hatem El-Bastawisy from his hospital bed. The 41-year-old civil engineer had a broken shoulder, severe bruises and a hemorrhaging left eye -- all the result of an armed assault by a vicious gang on his Nasr City villa. The attack seemed to have one main goal -- kidnapping El- Bastawisy's six-year-old son Ali. El-Bastawasi -- along with Egyptian police -- think...