Recent weeks have seen delegations rush to the gleaming new Cairo headquarters of the group's General Guide, Muhammad Badeea.
New Cairo City is a planned community about 30km east of downtown, home to many international universities, luxury high rises and gated communities, as well as shopping malls and golf courses.
He earned law degrees at Cairo University and New York University, entered the foreign service, and married a schoolteacher (they have two grown children).
This latter criteria has become especially important in North African nations where local populations have been wary about the involvement of international partners and eager to make sure that any new energy development from Tangiers to Cairo include strict stipulations that ensure more local jobs, training and that domestic energy demand is met before shipping out to the European or Asian markets.
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Mohamed failed to be a famous singer in Cairo and wants to find a new beginning in Australia.
He was scheduled to fly to Cairo on Tuesday but returned promptly to New York.
In Cairo, the President pledged to pursue a new partnership between the United States and the Muslim world based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
Nothing had remained of that false moment of intimacy, in June 2009, when he had traveled to Cairo, the self-styled herald of a new American message to the Arab world.
Thursday's speech came nearly two years after Obama delivered an address in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, that called for "a new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world.
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With 20 million people, more than the populations of Libya, Lebanon and Jordan combined, Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the Middle East. (By contrast, the most populous city in the United States, New York City, is a bit more than 8 million.) Cairo's size has increased more than sixfold in the past 60 years.
Their new idea was spelled out last week at an EU-sponsored conference in Cairo.
The timing of the new charges cannot be a coincidence, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo.
Last fall, the Ministry of Housing announced plans to offer 100, 000 plots of land in new towns for those of limited income, all on undesirable lands, many south of Cairo in rural Egypt.
The echoes of his Cairo speech seemed very faint indeed as neither Obama nor Mohammed Morsy, Egypt's new president, seemed to know how to characterize the U.S. relationship with that country, once an important ally in the region.
During a recent trip to Cairo, Mr Netanyahu seems to have offered enough to win praise from Egypt and start a new flurry of diplomacy that may yet lead to new peace talks.
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