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After Hatem El-Gamasy's profile appeared in The New York Times, the backroom political pundit and Ridgewood bodega owner stopped getting interviews from back home.
After Hatem El-Gamasy's profile appeared in The New York Times, the backroom political pundit and Ridgewood bodega owner stopped getting interviews from back home.
The New York Times profile on Hatem El-Gamasy, a Ridgewood bodega owner who moonlights as a political pundit on Egyptian TV, made a media splash in the city. Three weeks after the article was published, however, El-Gamasy no longer appears on any Egyptian news shows.
Cover image via El-Gamasy’s Facebook profile.
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