Egypt Uncovers a New Source of Extremism in an Unexpected Place: Northern Sinai
Afternoon prayers were done, and Ahmed Felaifel lay down in the sand in the midday heat beneath a canopy resting on cinder-block walls. He was emotionally exhausted. His eldest son had been killed by the police a few days earlier, and he could barely find the energy to explain why he had disowned his two sons five years ago, in a tribal sentence of last resort called tashmees, which literally means “to be put out to the sun.”Full Story