It was spring of 2003 and Baghdad was about to fall. I was in Cairo because Egypt is the most important country in the Arab world and because covering the war from a place where no one was shooting seemed like the safer course.The situation there was tense, though, if not as tense as it is today. I was headed to Friday prayers at al-Azhar mosque, the 1,000-year-old center of Egyptian Islam. The grand sheik — appointed by Hosni Mubarak, who was the autocratic president then and is the autocratic president now and has been the autocratic president for 30 years — was to...
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