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-Analysis- CAIRO — Xenophobia is defined in Webster’s dictionary as: “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.” Britannica expands the definition, saying that it means to include the belief that certain foreign individuals and cultures represent a threat to the authentic identity of one’s own nation-state. The term derives from the Ancient Greek: xenos (meaning “stranger”) and phobos (meaning “fear”), so it literally means fear of strangers, but in general it is used to mean discrimination and hostility toward migrants and foreigners. For the latest…

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