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CAIRO: Only one month into the 2008-2009 People’s Assembly (PA) term and controversy is already looming over it, especially with regards to the Muslim Brotherhood. A court ruled that Muslim Brotherhood MP Adel Hamed, had violated the criteria for candidacy. He should not have been allowed to run under the workers’ quota because he owned …
CAIRO: A once established publishing house, Rose Al-Youssef is wasting large sums of public money every morning, suggests a report released by the Central Auditing Agency. Earlier this week, independent newspaper Al-Fajr published a summary of the report which states that Rose Al-Youssef daily prints 3,508,000 copies annually, 2,587,000 copies of which are returned, which …
CAIRO: The controversial race for Lawyers Syndicate chairman heated up Tuesday with the nomination of Judge Mortada Mansour. Mansour, who filed his application Dec. 2, said his goals are to restore the prestige and dignity of Egyptian lawyers, who have been repeatedly assaulted by police, reported independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. He added that Sameh Ashour, …
The Cairo Independent Film Festival opened yesterday after being abruptly postponed hours before its scheduled opening on Nov. 21. As one Rawabet Theater official put it, the postponment was due to the failure of the festival’s organizers to submit required paperwork containing the approval of the Ministry of Culture. “There will be a total of …
CAIRO: Amid the noisy, crowded streets and bustling activity in the Cairene squatter settlement of Mansheyat Nasser, in the basement of an unpainted building, 25 women have decided to change their destinies. They came to learn how to read and write. “One has to be educated in order to know things, so no one can …
CAIRO: “For one and a half years we have been working on the basis of our agreement, ‘Neighbourhood Action Plan’ so it is time for evaluation [especially] in the new economic and financial situation, said Klaus Ebermann, ambassador and head of the delegation of the European Commission to Egypt, at a press conference Monday. Ebermann …
CAIRO: The saying “there are two sides to every story best explains the situation of HIV/AIDS in Egypt. “Egypt is one of the lucky countries which has only a few thousand HIV patients, however, because it has this small number, it is particularly challenging for those people to live in the country, said Jeffrey O’Malley, …
CAIRO: In an effort to ease tensions and build bridges between the United States and the Muslim world, the US-Muslim Engagement Leadership Group signed a policy report titled “Changing Course: A New Direction for US Relations with the Muslim World, calling upon President-elect Barack Obama to address the critical importance of improving US-Muslim relations. The …
CAIRO: Hours before its opening last Friday, the Cairo Independent Film Festival was postponed due to what a Rawabet Theater official said was missing paperwork sealing the approval of the Ministry of Culture. The festivals committee at the Ministry of Culture has assigned a smaller committee headed by Ali Abou Shady to examine the festival …
CAIRO: Candidates for the Lawyer’s Syndicate’s chairman position will be filing their applications today following a court order for elections to resume. This comes after an Administrative Court ruled in October that the door for candidate’s applications be closed, citing amendments to the professional syndicates’ law. Incumbent Chairman of the Lawyers’ Syndicate Sameh Ashour, controversial …
CAIRO: President of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, strongly condemned lashing as a form of punishment, deeming it “a violation of international law. “We need to work harder on combating this sentence, the former United Nations Secretary General said at the opening of a workshop titled “Freedom from Torture in the …
CAIRO: Arab ministers who met this week in Damascus, Syria approved a resolution aimed integrating media and information technology in the region, and another promoting the use of Arabic language on the Internet. The Damascus Resolution aims at spreading the use of applications which integrate media and communication in the Arab world in its strive …
CAIRO: A Cairo Traffic Misdemeanors Court Monday sentenced the 10 men charged with taking part in an impromptu motorcycle race with a one-year prison sentence and a LE 3,000 fine. They are currently out on bail – which was set at LE 1,000 – pending the verdict of their appeal, which will be heard on …
CAIRO: On Friday Nov. 14, World Diabetes Day, Egypt celebrated the launch of Allo Sukkar Mazboot 16363, a hotline that provides information about diabetes and counseling for patients. The hotline, which also refers callers to services and resources for further help, was launched by the Egyptian Association for Diabetes (EAD), under the umbrella of the …
CAIRO: Students in Egypt can now enjoy digital online learning with the launch of the award-winning skoool.com.eg, a multimedia website with multi-device learning solutions. The launch of skoool.com in Egypt is part of the Egyptian Education Initiative and will be rolled out in schools across Egypt. The digital education platform is developed and produced by …
CAIRO: A Cairo Traffic Misdemeanors Court today will try 10 men charged with taking part in an impromptu motorcycle race. The group of 20-somethings was allegedly racing their motorcycles at 2:30 am in Mohandiseen’s Gamaet El-Dowal El-Arabiya Street last Friday. One of the defense lawyers, Mohamed El-Dawy, said the charges are baseless and vengeful, citing …
CAIRO: An exclusive group of students in Egypt could once call themselves recipients of an American Diploma. However, after an education ministry decree in 1997 that set criteria for offering the diploma and lowered the bar, many Egyptian schools all reached for a piece of the American education pie. The American high school education system …
CAIRO: Human rights activists and democracy advocates around the world protested and criticized the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and defaming Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. On Thursday Nov. 6, which marked the second anniversary of Amer’s arrest, demonstrations were held in several world …
CAIRO: Incumbent chairman of the Lawyers’ Syndicate Sameh Ashour staged a sit-in on Sunday, which he said will last until elections for syndicate chairman resume. Ashour, who is running for another term, is holding the sit-in inside the syndicate. The lawyers are “legitimately asking for their rights and will use all possible means to reach …
CAIRO: When a bride-to-be appeared last Ramadan on Mahmoud Saad’s hit show “Do’o El-Mazaher and talked about the working conditions at the textile factory where she works, she instantly touched audiences’ hearts. Before the show was over, her fiancé had received several job offers with a salary big enough to allow her to stay at …
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health announced the re-opening of three operating rooms at Nile Badrawi Hospital in Maadi after all six were shut down last month by ministerial decree. Minister Hatem El Gabaly had shut down the operating rooms during the ongoing investigations into the death of two patients at the hospital on Oct. 21, …
CAIRO: The tragic death of 11-year-old Islam Badr has created media frenzy about corporal punishment in schools. The fourth grade student at Saad Othman Primary School in Alexandria died after being kicked in the stomach by his mathematics teacher on Monday Oct. 27. The incident has brought this common practice in schools under the spotlight …
CAIRO: With a marketing strategy that is “all about making a noise, Splash, the latest fashion chain invading the Egyptian market, managed to attract dozens of excited shoppers, media figures and Lebanese sensation Nicole Saba to its opening on Oct. 29. So far everything about Splash has been unique, starting with their choice of opening …
CAIRO: Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah engaged in an on-air verbal spat with Al-Ahram editor Ahmed Moussa and outspoken television presenter Amr Adib, when the two implied that he was exploiting his position as minister to expand his private business. Moussa appeared Tuesday on Adib’s popular nightly talk show “Al-Qahira Al-Youm (Cairo Today) on Orbit, …
CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement, an activist group on the social networking website Facebook, are organizing an online convention at the same time as the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) annual convention held in November. The NDP’s annual convention is scheduled to start on Saturday Nov. 1 and ends on Nov. 3. This is the …
CAIRO: Eleven-year-old Islam Amr Badr, a student at Saad Othman Primary School in Alexandria, died Monday after being kicked in the stomach by his mathematics teacher. It began when the teacher reportedly hit a few of the students – Badr included – with a ruler as punishment for not completing their homework. When Badr did …
CAIRO: In its efforts to combat pollution, the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs is launching an awareness campaign aimed at clearing the country’s skies of the notorious “black cloud – a mass of polluted air that hangs over Egypt during the fall months of October and November. This year, the ministry is using short …
CAIRO: Heavy rain, thunder and lightening marked the weather on Friday which had Egypt under thick clouds all day. The weather forecast for the day was a high of 27?C, a low of 18?C and clear skies. But who believes the weatherman anymore? At around noon, the rain started pouring and the skies lit up …
Young jewelry designer May Heggy had always loved working with beads, but unlike many of her colleagues and competitors, she discards the “ever since I was a little girl I ve had this talent mantra. Heggy had decided early on that she’ll study jewelry design first before venturing into the business. “You can’t pursue a …
CAIRO: Minister of Health Hatem El Gabaly ordered the closure of all seven operating rooms at Maadi’s Nile Badrawi hospital. He also decreed that no new cases will be admitted in the hospital’s intensive care unit as the investigations proceed into the death of two patients at the hospital last Tuesday. Both patients were reportedly …