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Egyptian Official Spreads Blood Libel
television, Egyptian politician Khaled Zaafrani smilingly repeats an age-old blood libel. Translations of Arabic-language websites by the Middle East Media Research Institute ...
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G8 Countries Commit to Boosting Development Efforts of African Partners
G8 countries of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada and Russia praised the development efforts made by Africans citizens, governments and institutions, including the African Development Bank Group, and committed further ...
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Africa Sudan Egypt Told to Reconsider Position On Nile Waters
Juba-The South Sudanese Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hon. Paul Mayom Akec has urged Sudan and Egypt to reconsider their position in the affairs of the Nile Waters and membership to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). "I want to appeal specifically to Sudan and Egypt to reconsider their positions and become effective members of the NBI that they participated in founding. They ...
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Egypt appoints former terrorist as Luxor Governor
Adel Mohamed al-Khayat is a former leader of terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya -- which in 1997 sent a terrorist squad that massacred 62 tourists before killing themselves at the ancient Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor -- and now he's a governor. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi this ...
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Egypt court suspends planned election date
An Egyptian court today ruled that the parliamentary elections, which President Mohammed Morsi had decreed for 22 April, must be postponed. Judges say the Constitutional Court needs time to approve the new Electoral Code. Mr Morsi says he will appeal the ...
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Opposition to boycott another Egypt election
This weekend, opposition leader Mohammed El-Baradei called for a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Egypt. Mr El-Baradei made his announcement on Twitter, saying the opposition should not let itself to be abused to legitimise a "sham democracy". The Nobel Peace Prize laureate compared the upcoming poll to the last elections under toppled President Hosni Mubarak, when he ...
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Egypt Islamists use homophobia to win votes
Homosexuality is becoming an issue in the upcoming Egyptian elections, with the Muslim Brotherhood already being accused of spreading homophobia to win ...
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Cote dIvoire Gets Official Nod to Host 2014 ECOWAS Games
Abuja - Nigeria - The ECOWAS Commission and the Ivorian Government have signed an agreement formally awarding the hosting rights of the third ECOWAS Games to the country. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Kadre Desire Ouedraogo and the country's Minister of Youth Development, Sports and Entertainment, Honourable Alain Lobognon initialed the Memorandum of Understanding ...
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Orascom Construction shareholders approve OCI N.V. offer OCI N.V.
), which were convened earlier today. A total of 168,118,467 Orascom Construction Industries S.A.E. shares were represented at the Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) representing 81.25% of total shares outstanding. A total of 168,093,053 shares approved all resolutions in the OGM, representing 99.98% of total shares present. Attending minority shareholders totaled 11,264,179 shares, with 99.83% ...
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Morsi Critics Demand Early Egypt Elections
An Egyptian signs a petition for Tamarod, Arabic for "rebel", a campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and for early presidential elections in the Shubra neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, June 2, ...
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Auditors find EU financial aid to Egypt to promote democracy ineffective
The approximately 1 billion the EU gave to the Egyptian government from 2007 to 2013 to fight corruption and promote human rights made little progress, according to the European Court of Auditors. A report by the ECA declared EU support for governance in Egypt, the most populous Arab country and a priority of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument, as "well-intentioned but ...
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Samsung Entaleq initiative recieves 800 applicants in Just 50 Days
Following the outstanding launch of Egypt's first mobile application developers initiative; Entaleq, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, the global leader and award-winning innovator, has announced that the initiative has garnered over 800 participants to date, with the number still rapidly ...
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FSA approves Giza General Contracting to discuss capital increase
) to call for both OGM, EGM to discuss issued and paid capital increase by LE 14.698.500 for through free stocks distribution (one free stock for every four held) at a nominal value of LE 5 per ...
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Party of Egypts Islamist president blames opposition for violence over governors
CAIRO - Egypt's most powerful Muslim group has blamed the secular and liberal opposition for a wave of violence over the appointment of new Islamist governors. A Wednesday statement by the Freedom and Justice party, political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, says the refusal of opposition leaders to talk to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was to blame for the violence in four Nile Delta ...
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In Recording Attributed to Mubarak He Says He Refused U.S. Bases
In a recording attributed to Egypt's toppled President Hosni Mubarak that appeared on YouTube on Wednesday, the ousted president said that he turned down the United States' request to deploy military bases to Egyptian soil. "The United States has always pressured us to put military bases in Egypt and I always strongly refused," Mubarak said in the low-quality recording ...
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Still double standards in Egypt justice
Egyptian activists are enraged by continued double standards by the judiciary, as strikers and protesters are still sent to military tribunals while an ex-Minister ordering the shooting of protesters is ...
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How cyber-activism lent savvy to North African protests
The revolutions and protest movements in North and sub-Saharan Africa are by the people, but they could never have taken the form they took and keep on taking without social media and new ...
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Egyptians split on Saturdays referendum
Protesters at Cairo's legendary Tahrir Square are mostly against tomorrow's precipitated referendum over a new constitution for Egypt, which they see as too similar to the ...
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Leaks Mubarak behind 2005 terror attack
Documents seized from Egypt's dismantled State Security agency seem to document that the Mubarak regime itself was planning and executing the bombing of the ...
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Qatar Gaza Aid Via Egypt Not Israel
Former US President Jimmy Carter has downplayed the US influence over Israel and Palestine, saying its record low sway on either side hinders resolution of prolonged Palestinian-Israeli ...
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Deaths in Israel-Egypt Border Shootout
One Israeli soldier and three armed men have been killed in clashes along the Israel-Egypt border. Israeli troops shot the three heavily armed men when they crossed the Egyptian border and ambushed the soldiers, averting "a very big terror attack", an Israeli military spokeswoman said on Friday. The incident took place on the Israeli side of the frontier at a place called Har Harif, ...
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Nations Decision to Cut Diplomatic Ties With Syria Discussed As Marzouki Meets With Ambassador
Tunis - Egypt's decision to severe its diplomatic ties with Syria was discussed as Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki received, on Tuesday at the Palace of Carthage, Egypt's ambassador in Tunis Aymen Jameleddine Abdelfettah Machrafa. The Egyptian ambassador officially informed President Marzouki about Egypt's decision to cut its diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime, a ...
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Rights Group Denounces Work Suspension of Radio Announcer in Cairo
Egypt: ANHRI Denounces Work Suspension of a Radio Announcer in Cairo Broadcast and Sending Him for Investigation Because of Hosting a Leader in ...
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Number of Anti-Mursi Petitions Will Surprise - Organizer
Mohamed Abdel Aziz, a central committee member of the "Tamarod" (Rebel) campaign, has said that the campaign has collected over 15 million petitions and plans to hold a press conference to announce the official numbers soon. The purpose of Tamarod is to collect petitions to push for a no-confidence vote against President Mohamed Mursi and call for early presidential elections. ...
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Mursi Discusses Challenges Facing Nation With Azhar Sheikh Pope
President Mohamed Mursi met with al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb and Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria to discuss the challenges currently facing Egypt. The meeting included discussions on the necessity of mobilising all economic and social potential to allow for development, the presidency wrote on its Facebook page. Mursi praised the national and historical roles of both al-Azhar institution ...
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Cairo leading new wave in literature
The publishing industry in Cairo is undergoing a profound change that may have implications for the day-to-day life of Egyptians for years to come, it is a kind of revolution in literature that may one day put Cairo on the map, nestled among those other publishing powerhouses, New York, London, and Chicago primarily, but also regional publishing centers like Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Sydney.
Cairo is already a literature producing city, but it is more commonly associated with Arabic texts, and these pieces of literature are further associated with sweeping assessments of society, societal change, politics and religion on a macrocosmic level. Traditionally, there has also never been much of a local market for literature in Cairo or wider Egypt, leading to an old saying that books are written in Cairo, but published in Beirut and then read in Baghdad. Read more
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