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CAIRO: A total of 22 independent and opposition daily newspapers did not publish on Sunday in protest of the lengthy jail sentences recently handed down to several journalists. The newspapers were Al-Masry Al-Youm, Al-Badil, Al-Dostour, Al-Osbou, Al-Fajr, Al-Midan, Al-Forsan, Sout Al-Omah, Al-Ahali, Al-Mogaz, Al-Arabi Al-Nassery, Al-Gamaheer, Al-Karama, Nahdat Masr, Al-Nahar, Al-Alam Al-Youm, Al-Mawqef Al-Arabi, Al-Mal, …
CAIRO: A State Security prosecutor sentenced Mohamed El-Derini, prominent Egyptian Shia activist and writer, to 15 days in jail for publishing false information about being tortured in prison. His son Ahmed El-Derini, a journalist at Al-Badil daily newspaper, told Daily News Egypt that the charges against him also included contempt for religion by following Shiism. …
CAIRO: For the second time, state security forces attacked the house of Mohamed El-Derini, the prominent Egyptian Shia activist and writer, according to his son Ahmed El-Derini, a journalist with Al-Badil daily newspaper. Ahmed told Daily News Egypt that at dawn of last Monday, during sohour, his father was arrested by state security forces “who …
CAIRO: The Bolaq court postponed Monday the trial of Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of Al-Dostour daily newspaper, at the request of his lawyers who asked for more time to investigate the nine lawsuits filed against him. Eissa is accused of publishing wrong information about the president’s health and spreading rumors that threatened foreign investments in …
CAIRO: Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of Al-Dostour daily newspaper, will not face trial before an emergency state security court as he expected a week ago. But Ibrahim Mansour, executive editor of Al-Dostour and member of the Press Syndicate board of directors, however told Daily News Egypt that this decision does not change anything in the …
CAIRO: The Ministry of Transportation has implemented an internal set of rules that reduces the maximum number of travelers on board any maritime transportation from 2,750 to 1,200 passengers, according to Hala Fawzy, the ministry s media consultant. Speaking on behalf of Minister of Transportation Mohamed Mansour , Fawzy told Daily News Egypt that the …
CAIRO: Press Syndicate Chairman Galal Aref suffered a heart attack Wednesday, thus postponing the syndicate’s crisis management meeting to Saturday. Aref was quickly moved to the intensive care unit of Kasr Al Aini hospital, but his office manager told Daily News Egypt that his condition is improving and that he can now speak on the …
CAIRO: Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of Al-Dostour daily newspaper, predicts that he will be tried before a State Security court instead of Bolak court, he told Daily News Egypt. Eissa is accused of generating public panic and causing the country substantial losses in foreign investment by spreading rumors about President Hosni Mubarak s health. The …
CAIRO: Editor-in-chief of Al-Wafd newspaper, Anwar Al-Hawari, along with Mahmoud Galeb, and Amir Salem – two journalists at the same newspaper – received a two-year jail sentence Monday, for misquoting the Minister of Justice. Their bail is set at LE 5,000. A source at Al Wafd newspaper, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that the …
CAIRO: The gatekeeper of Marina Church, 67-year-old Tadrous, was assaulted last Thursday by a group of workers who originally came to pave the roads, Priest Anglos Ishaq told Daily News Egypt. The latest conflict in the ongoing land dispute saga took place last Thursday at 10 am when General Ahmed Moharam, head of El Alamein …
CAIRO: Twenty-six students at Assuit University, along with others in a number of other national universities including Cairo University, were referred to a disciplinary committee for their affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood group, said Mahmoud Ezzat, a leading member of the group. Ezzat told Daily News Egypt that the students had not displayed any violent …
CAIRO: The chairman of Stars brokerage firm Ibrahim Salah Eddin fled the country with his clients money. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm reports, the company was posing as a brokerage firm but was actually involved in pyramid scheme activities, or a business model based on a fraudulent business plan and it is illegal in many countries. …
CAIRO: Minister of Higher Education Hani Hilal and Minister of Education Yousry Al-Gamal failed to attend a People’s Assembly’s (PA) education committee meeting last Monday, according to MP Farid Ismail. Ismail, who is affiliated with the National Democratic Party (NDP), told Daily News Egypt that a number of critical issues being discussed required the ministers’ …
CAIRO: A violent rape scene shown in an episode of a television drama on the second day of Ramadan immediately caused a stir. Not only was the scene a first for Egyptian television, it was also the first time for a scene without any nudity to cause such controversy. The rape scene in Youssra’s new …
CAIRO: Sheikh Ezzat Attiya, chairman of the hadith department at Al-Azhar University was dismissed from his faculty position yesterday following the completion of the disciplinary committee investigation into his highly controversial fatwa. Attiya was fired for issuing a fatwa last May in which he had drawn on Islamic traditions which forbid sexual relations between men …
CAIRO: The rape scene in Egyptian actress Youssra’s new Ramadan TV series, A Public Opinion Case, was denounced for tarnishing Egypt s reputation by member of the National Council for Women s Rights, Ahlam Hanafy. The series, which airs daily on local Egyptian television and Dubai satellite television, caused controversy when it was broadcast fully …
CAIRO: Youth looking desperately for jobs found new hope in a series of ads encouraging college graduates to join jobs usually considered to be beneath them. The ads don’t just offer advice but provide viewers with a phone number, 16456, to call and ask about job openings. Daily News Egypt tried to call the number …
CAIRO: The Administrative Monitoring Authority arrested Abdel Hamid Kotb, chairman of the engineering department of the Higher Council of Antiquities along with a number of other employees involved in the bribery case of Ayman Abdel Moneim, the former project manager at the Ministry of Culture. Ahmed Salah, the Ministry’s spokesman confirmed the news to Daily …
CAIRO: Of the 300 detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), 120 have been freed during the past few days, MB Deputy Leader Mohamed Habib told Daily News Egypt. He added that those who were arrested in the run-up to the Shoura Council (Upper House of Parliament) elections last June, should not have been detained …
CAIRO: The Criminal Court of Agouza sentenced on Thursday four editors-in-chief of the most popular independent newspapers to a year in prison and a LE 20,000 fine in what journalists and rights advocates have dubbed the death of press freedom in Egypt. Adel Hammouda, of Al-Fajr weekly, Ibrahim Eissa, editor of Al-Dostour daily, Wael Al-Abrashy, …
CAIRO: Al-Dostour editor Ibrahim Eissa slammed charges holding him responsible for triggering public panic and causing the country substantial losses in foreign investment by spreading rumors about the president’s health. If this is true, according to Eissa, this country clearly has an extremely weak and trifle economy [if it is] to be easily affected by …
CAIRO: Investigations confirmed that Ahmed Abdel Karim, the police officer who was killed on duty in Al-Badrashin, was hit by a bullet fired by a fellow police officer and not by the two criminals he was chasing as earlier reported. The officer who fired the shot was sentenced to eight years in prison after being …
CAIRO: For years we’ve been seeing the creative fund-raising ads for the Children’s Cancer hospital 57357. Public figures, actors, actresses and singers have been supporting the project by encouraging people to donate, especially during the month of Ramadan. It was only fitting that the hospital s official opening take place on the eve of the …
CAIRO: For the first time, the Higher Judiciary Council in Saudi Arabia has announced that it will conduct the sighting of the crescent moon – which would determine the start of the holy month of Ramadan – on Monday Sept. 10, or Shaaban 28, the eighth month of the Hijri or lunar calendar. Usually, the …
CAIRO: Slow implementation of the new teachers’ law has fueled worries that Al Azhar academics and non-teaching staff working under the Ministry of Education would be dropped from the list of potential beneficiaries. Member of Parliament Saad El Katatany told Daily News Egypt that the Ministry of Education didn’t implement the newly approved law on …
CAIRO: The Court of Administrative Justice in Cairo postponed until Oct. 30 its verdict on the two lawsuits filed by Baha i Egyptians asking for their right to acquire identity documents as well as their to an education. The Baha is are no longer asking to be recognized, Hossam Bahgat, chairman of the Egyptian Initiative …
Street entertainers, I thought, were a thing of the past. The magicians who performed on sidewalks were an old phenomenon, a disappearing act. A recent documentary directed by Ahmed Abou Zeid, “El Hawy (The Magician), however, has said the magic words and breathed new life into a dying art. The documentary, which was screened at …
CAIRO: The public prosecutor released Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of Al-Dostour independent daily newspaper, without bail, after a seven-hour interrogation, on Wednesday Sept. 5, The editor of the independent Egyptian daily was summoned for questioning Sept. 3 over his paper’s coverage of the state of President Hosni Mubarak’s health. Many journalists and representatives from several …
Whether you want to relax, look better, or lose weight, nature has the remedy to cure all ailments. The latest in relaxation techniques comes in the form of drums and dolphins. Research shows that the rhythmic sound of drumming has great health benefits. Sounds from the drums supposedly helps energize the nervous system, regulate heart …
CAIRO: The Minister of Religious Endowments condemned the recent publication of a caricature of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) in a Swedish newspaper, describing it as an “irresponsible and offensive action. The cartoon, created by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, featured Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) standing beside a dog and was published in Nerikes Allehanda, a local newspaper …