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Region Reacts To Overthrow in Egypt

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN,  shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a banner and Syrian revolution flags during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday. (AP/Edlib News Network ENN)
This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a banner and Syrian revolution flags during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday. (AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

The overthrow of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi has reverberated throughout the Middle East. To some it represent an attack on political Islam and for others it’s a triumph for secularism. NPR’s Peter Kenyon describes the regional reaction from his perch in Istanbul.

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