Steve Hendrix at The Washington Post reports on the changing Egyptian views regarding Muslim men’s facial hair. Former president, Hosni Mubarak, “banned [beards] by law or custom” because he equated them with Islamic piety, which Mubarak saw as a threat to his regime. Egypt’s newly elected president wears a beard, prompting lawyer, Ali el-Banna, to say with pride, “As Muslims, when we see President Morsi, we feel just as the black people of the United States feel about Barack Obama.”