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Anti-Mursi Demonstrators March to Tahrir Square
Demonstrators marched on Friday from Dawaran Shubra, Mostafa Mahmoud and Sayeda Zeinab to Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest against President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Activist Kamal Khalil urged around one thousand demonstrators on the march from Shubra to pass through Road al-Farag area in order to get more people to join the march. Hundreds of marching demonstrators ...
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Egypt Suez Canal Development Project Will Raise Revenues 20 Folds - Official
The Suez Canal development project aims at turning the canal into "a global centre for industry and logistics" since 10 percent of the world's merchandise and 20 percent of all ships pass through the canal, said an advisor to President Mohamed Mursi. The project which is expected to raise the canal's revenues 20 folds will involve three phases, presidential advisor Ahmed ...
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Opposition Denounces New NGO Draft Law
Egypt's main opposition group, the National Salvation Front, announced on Saturday its rejection of the draft law governing the work of NGOs that is currently being discussed by the Shura Council (upper house of parliament). The opposition bloc stressed that this law "sets the foundation for suppressing civil work in Egypt and contradicts the international standards for freedom of ...
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Opposition Leader Sabahi Supports Rebellion Movement Tamarod
Leading figure in the oppositionist National Salvation Front, Hamdeen Sabahi, said on Saturday that the rebellion movement "Tamarod" is an initiative by youth who are devoted to achieving the objectives of the Egyptian uprising. "Tamarod" is a campaign that aims to overthrow Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's through collecting signatures for a vote of no confidence on ...
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Several flights without bags after Egypt airport strike
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage.Airport officials say senior officials from the country's national carrier are meeting the baggage handlers to hear their demands, which ...
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Egypt denies Morsi intents to run cabinet
Egyptian presidency denied Friday the circulated rumors that President Mohamed Morsi intended to hold the post of prime minister in an imminent cabinet reshuffle, official news agency MENA reported. "There is deliberation over assigning the post to another figure," MENA quoted presidential spokesman Omar Amer as saying. "Qualification will be the basic criteria for the upcoming ...
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Consumer confidence in Egypt down 20 points in Q1 study
Global research firm Nielsen has said Egypt has seen the steepest decline in consumer confidence out of 58 countries worldwide, shedding 20 points from Nielsen's Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) in the first quarter of 2013, Ahram has reported. Egypt registered 74 points in the CCI, coming in last among Middle Eastern and North African states, due to ongoing political instability and ...
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Palestinian Refugees In Egypt Exiled And Forgotten
GEZIRAT AL-FADEL, Egypt -- In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo. They had not planned to stay long in Egypt's Sharqiya province, ...
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Excerpts Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influencein Egypt Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013
Excerpts: Syrian Government quadruples price of fuel oil. Hamas influence in Egypt? Iran to head UN Conference on Disarmament 13 May 2013 +++SOURCE:The Syria Report 13 ...
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Suspects Arrested in Plot Against Embassy
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al-Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy, the Interior Minister said on Saturday. Mohammed Ibrahim told a news conference that the men had been in contact with Dawood al-Assady, a leader of Al-Qaeda in southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan, and that the group was ...
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Egypt keeps Gaza border closed due to kidnapping
CAIRO - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said.The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the ...
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Sino-Egyptian economic zone attracts more investment
TIANJIN - To boost investment in a Sino-Egyptian joint industrial zone, three large Chinese companies will start production there this year. The three firms, Jushi Egypt Fiberglass Industry, XD High Voltage Equipment Company and Muyang Egypt Industry, will bring a total investment of more than $400 million this year, said Liu Aimin, general manager of China-Africa TEDA Investment Co Ltd. The ...
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AP PHOTOS Palestinians in Egypt village exhibit consequences of 65 years of mass displacement
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, Palestinian refugee Sulaiman al-Namodi, 92, sits outside of his house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it ...
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Young British girl drowns in pool at Egyptian Red Sea resort
CAIRO - A senior Egyptian prosecutor says a 5-year-old British girl has drowned in pool at a Red Sea resort. The official, who obtained an initial police report on the accident, says a lifeguard on duty at the resort in Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday was unable to resuscitate the girl. He says prosecutors are reviewing the safety measures at the hotel. The official spoke on condition of anonymity ...
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Opposition groups protest proposed law regulating NGOs in Egypt
Egypt's opposition parties and human rights groups say a proposed bill requiring NGOs to be vetted and receive special permissions by the government would restrict their ...
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Activists Trial for Insulting Egypt President Continues
Political activist, Ahmed Douma. The second hearing of Ahmed Douma's trial for insulting the Egyptian president and spreading false information will be held on Monday. Douma, who has pleaded not guilty, was transferred from Damanhour to Cairo on Sunday evening upon an order by the Justice Minister. A prosecutor has ordered that Douma be detained pending investigations over allegations ...
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Egypts opposition attacks Brotherhood-backed NGO draft law
leftist opposition parties , said the draft law submitted to the Shura Council, which for now has legislative powers, was more restrictive than laws under deposed ...
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In ancient Egypt summer was the season for making babies
The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.Researchers made this discovery at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt whose burials date back around 1,800 years. The oasis is located about 450 miles (720 kilometers) southwest of Cairo. The people buried in the cemetery lived in the ancient town of Kellis, with a population of ...
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Row sparks sectarian violence at Alexandria in Egypt
It started as a row between two young men in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria. It then became a family feud and finally mushroomed into clashes between Christians and Muslims that left at least one dead and dozens injured. The violence happened outside a Coptic church late at night after the two men – one Christian, one Muslim – began quarrelling. The two sides threw ...
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Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead
CAIRO -; Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart ...
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With conservative Islamists in power blasphemy cases surge in Egypt
Accusations of blasphemy, a criminal offense under Egypt's new Islamist-backed constitution, have been leveled more frequently against writers, activist, and Christians in recent ...
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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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