On merit, some of the obvious candidates for the Fund job, such as Brazilian Arminio Fraga, and Egyptian-born Mohamed El-Erian, are not European.

从资质上来讲，有些显而易见的基金组织领袖候选人， 比如巴西的阿米尼奥·弗拉格（Arminio Fraga）和出生在埃及的穆罕默德·埃尔-埃利安（Mohamed El-Erian）都不是来自欧洲。

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Does this Westernization make the Egyptian or the Saudi less authentic Arabs?

这一西方化是否让埃及人或者沙特人不再是正宗的阿拉伯人呢？

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Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.

在埃及统治下加沙地带的经济发展非常有限，而这个地区还承受着吸收从受托管的巴勒斯坦的南部地区的战火中逃离出来的巴勒斯坦难民的负担，那块地区后 来成了以色列的领土。

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