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Declan Walsh The writer is the Chief Africa correspondent at NYTSprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale and...

When Taha al Baskini won a part in a new play about soldiers who reunite after dying in combat, his costume was already in his closet. His onstage camouflage pants were the same ones he had worn as a...