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CAIRO: Speaker of the People’s Assembly (PA) reportedly threatened to sever ties with the European Parliament (EP) if the body decides to enact a draft resolution that criticizes human rights conditions in Egypt. “The People’s Assembly will consider cutting ties with the European Parliament… as long as it continues to use the language of commands …
I enter a room backstage to meet the Axis of Evil boys for my interview, and I hear Maz Jobrani asking about the names of bridges and streets in Cairo. An hour later, he is on stage performing to a jam-packed hall at El Sawy Culture Wheel, making jokes about the 15th of May Bridge, …
Three Arab-American stand-up comedians are bringing the jokes back home. The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour kicked off last week in the Middle East starting with Abu Dhabi, and Amman. The tour is scheduled to make a stop in Cairo on Nov. 20 and Nov. 21 before carrying on to Beirut and Dubai. The Axis …
Dressed in red with a checkered Palestinian scarf wrapped around her neck, a little girl s route to school is disrupted by military aircrafts, a checkpoint and a big bad wolf dressed in an army uniform. This is the story told in Outlandish s latest video Look into my Eyes, which they describe as their …
CAIRO: Egyptians have unilaterally decided to head to the ballot box, albeit a virtual one. Armed with the tools of popular social networking website Facebook.com, users have created a presidential elections forum, encouraging participants to nominate any candidate they see fit to take over in 2011, when the incumbent President Hosni Mubarak ends his sixth …
CAIRO: The National Council for Women is calling for amendments to laws it considers discriminatory against women in an attempt to enforce gender equality, Emad El Naggar, member of the legislative committee at the council, told Daily News Egypt. According to El Naggar, certain laws are biased against women, namely those that punish crimes like …
CAIRO: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Hani Hilal is set to meet with 17 university presidents on Sunday at Cairo University to decide on the exact number of students to be accepted in the various faculties this year. Alaa El Toukhy, administrative manager of the Higher Education Projects Unit, told Daily News Egypt, …
CAIRO: After 15 days of fierce competition, the 9th All-Africa Games in Algiers came to an end last Monday, July 23, with Egypt walking away with 74 gold medals, the highest count this term, making its overall medal haul reach 199. Although Algeria earned a total of 204 medals, only 70 of those were gold, …
CAIRO: Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif sparked controversy when he criticized the Egyptian 1999 Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, for not living up to his promise of setting up a technological university in Egypt during a talk he gave last Thursday at a youth camp in Alexandria. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, while meeting with youths in …
Parents of a newborn baby are usually excited when their family and friends start visiting, carrying stacks of shiny wrapped boxes. But once the wrapping paper comes off, their excitement is overshadowed by the realization that most of their loved ones came bearing similar gifts. New moms and dads receive the likes of clothes, bottles …
CAIRO: Nearly three years after bomb blasts hit Taba, the Hilton Taba is now fully renovated, sporting a new multi-million dollar look and reclaiming its position as Sinai s hottest spot after being closed for almost 25 months. Some rooms and facilities were ready for guests by December 2006, marking the resort s soft opening, …
CAIRO: Unicef signed an agreement with Exxonmobil to donate 60 computers to Unicef s NGO partners, the Youth Association for Population and Development and Maritime Scouts Association, at a conference held at their headquarters in Maadi on Thursday. The computers will be donated to youth centers in seven governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut, Sohag, Qena, Minya …