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"... The case also highlighted shifting power dynamics in the Arab world, as the authorities from the oil-rich United Arab Emirates pressed for the prosecution, forcing Egypt to put on trial a prominent member of the most elite stratum of society. Egypt does not allow citizens to be extradited, so it held the trial here.
Now, faced with its own severe economic crisis and the high-profile assassination of aHamas operative in Dubai, those dynamics have begun to shift again, perhaps easing the outside pressure on Egypt...."
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