And who will this multi-billion project benefit the most?
![This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows an aerial view of ongoing construction development at Egypt's "New Administrative Capital" megaproject, some 45 kilometres east of Cairo. [Khaled Desouki/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_1PW4OL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Dr Mustafa Menshawy is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster’s SEPAD, the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianization Proje... ct. He authored two books and several articles, including Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood: Self, Society and the State (Palgrave 2020) and ‘Constructing State, Territory, and Sovereignty in the Syrian Conflict’ (Politics journal 2018).
And who will this multi-billion project benefit the most?
![This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows an aerial view of ongoing construction development at Egypt's "New Administrative Capital" megaproject, some 45 kilometres east of Cairo. [Khaled Desouki/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_1PW4OL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Saudi-Iranian competition for regional hegemony has been wrongly interpreted as a Sunni-Shia rivalry.
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