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Abdallah Schleifer
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “prominent middle east expert”. Today it says “american middle east scholar who served as a senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute”.
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Abdallah Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer , 1935 ) is a prominent Middle East expert, former NBC Cairo Bureau chief, and a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo . Born in a secular Jewish family on Long Island , he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he was involved in Marxist movements. He is a convert to Sufi Islam . Abdallah Schleifer - American University of Cairo" .1
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prominent middle east expert
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american middle east scholar who served as a senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute
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