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March 29, 2012

CS Monitor: Atheist and pro-Israel, Maikel Nabil tests free speech in Egypt

by Kristen Chick
The Christian Science Monitor

Maikel Nabil's views are controversial in Egypt in almost every way – his open atheism, his support for gay rights, and especially his support for Israel.

But it was his opposition to the military that made him the first Egyptian blogger to be imprisoned for his opinions after the uprising that overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak.

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