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Articles of the author Aya Medhat
How does South Korea celebrate the Lunar New Year "Seollal"?
The Lunar New Year "Seollal" (설날) is one of the most important traditional holidays in South Korea, and the beginning of the Lunar New Year varies every year depending on the cycles of the moon's phases. This year, the celebrations will start on (...)

01 - 02 - 2022
Egypt opens 29th edition of Salah El-Din Citadel Festival for Music and Singing
Egypt's Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem and President of the Egyptian Opera House Magdy Saber inaugurated, on Sunday, the 29th edition of the Salah El-Din Citadel International Festival for Music and Singing, which is held in cooperation with (...)

17 - 08 - 2021
Experiences of my Sri Lankan odyssey
Why would you travel so far to an unknown land? How will it help to build your career? Could not you find a volunteering project in Egypt? These are the questions that I heard before traveling and I thought my volunteering abroad was brown into (...)

22 - 12 - 2018
Business practice environment
A few days ago, the World Bank Group released its Doing Business 2018 report. The report sheds light on the country's performance and business climate through a number of indicators during the period from July 2016 to the end of June 2017. The Doing (...)

15 - 11 - 2017
Rich Communication Suite and the future of mobile industry
Global mobile usage has tripled over the last five years, as noted by GSM Association (GSMA), a trade body consisting of international mobile operators. With the skyrocketing number of mobile phone users, text messaging remains one of the most (...)

08 - 11 - 2017
ISIS that is among us
They call themselves "The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria." On the other hand, clerics prefer to call them "Da'ish," while the Western world and international press call them "ISIS," which is the initials of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They (...)

22 - 11 - 2015
Geneva talks fail, for now
If war is an extension of politics by other means, as the German strategist and military historian Karl von Clausewitz put it, negotiations are an extension of war less violent but certainly not nice or gentile. The Yemeni talks in Geneva illustrate (...)

24 - 06 - 2015
One-sided talks in Geneva
Talks were scheduled to begin between the Yemeni government in exile in Riyadh and the Houthi forces in the UN headquarters in Geneva on 14 June. Yet, when the sun rose over Lake Geneva on Monday morning, the delegation from Sanaa had not yet (...)

16 - 06 - 2015
From war to words
With the announcement of UN-sponsored talks on Yemen set for 14 June in Geneva, the parties to the conflict have returned to the diplomatic path. But they show no signs of leaving the military one behind. There has not even been a truce announcement (...)

09 - 06 - 2015
Cairo-Riyadh divergence
Perhaps it is a good omen that the presidential statement issued following President Al-Sisi's meeting with the Saudi foreign minister spoke of a “consensus” in points of view on crucial regional questions. It has long been the Arab diplomatic (...)

03 - 06 - 2015
One step forward, several back
Developments last week brought no breakthroughs in Yemen on either the military or the political track. The military campaign is circling in place, with neither side nearing the point where it could raise the victory flag or where it would scream (...)

20 - 05 - 2015
Stepping on the gas
The war in Yemen is like a drunk driver. He signals right and veers left. Approaching a stoplight, he slams on the gas instead of the brakes. He sees a sign near a hospital saying, “Quiet please,” and starts blaring the car horn. Then he goes (...)

13 - 05 - 2015
Attack on Aden
Has the ground offensive begun? What is actually happening in Aden? Questions such as these were triggered by reports of clashes between Saudi-led Coalition Forces and the Houthi militias in the vicinity of Aden airport, purportedly to regain (...)

06 - 05 - 2015
After Decisive Storm
Just as suddenly as Operation Decisive Storm was launched and then called off, Operation Restoring Hope struck. As for the names of these campaigns, they could hardly be less appropriate. The “storm” was more in the nature of whirlwinds that (...)

29 - 04 - 2015
Shift to diplomacy
Saudi Arabian-led Operation Decisive Storm has petered out into a series of military and political squalls. The much-vaunted coalition has retrenched. The campaign is now an almost exclusively Gulf affair, aided and abetted by Egypt, but in a manner (...)

15 - 04 - 2015
Yemen's high stakes
I had the chance to talk to Major General Salama Al-Gohari, former military intelligence commander, and a group of young men who had just been evacuated from Yemen. Their description of the current events in Yemen was mesmerising. A country (...)

08 - 04 - 2015
An unprecedented storm
Houthi hubris in Yemen invited its own nemesis, a storm like no other. The 10-nation coalition, put together in haste, didn't tarry in delivering its lethal message. As rockets screeched towards their targets, gunboats roamed the coasts, and aerial (...)

02 - 04 - 2015
Ali Abdullah Saleh - Thinking of a comeback
It may be unfair to blame former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh for all the troubles facing his country today. It is after all true that his opponents, including members of the Saudi court, offered him every possible help to rule Yemen for 30 (...)

02 - 04 - 2015
After the constitutional declaration
In another shocking development after the Houthi power grab in Yemen, the movement issued a constitutional declaration 6 February to dissolve parliament and form an interim national council of 551 members to elect a five-member presidential council (...)

18 - 02 - 2015
Yemen edges towards disintegration
Yemen is slipping towards division and civil war and may be embroiled for many years to come. Nothing will save it from this fate. Whether the call at the emergency GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh urging the UN (...)

18 - 02 - 2015
Yemen's rising faction
Many observers of Yemeni affairs have voiced concerns over Iran's influence in the country. Some have spoken of possible Iranian domination of Yemeni politics but this may be going too far. What is most likely to happen is that Iran will influence (...)

17 - 12 - 2014
Houthis in Sanaa
Yemen faces an uncertain future after armed Houthis swept into the capital. Despite the signing of a power-sharing agreement with the president and a security protocol, the Iranian-backed Houthis have moved to take control of key government (...)

15 - 10 - 2014
One step forward, two steps back
The recent proclamation of a federal system in Yemen continues to reverberate throughout the country. The Houthis in the north are adamant in their opposition, and many southerners are demonstrating for the re-establishment of an independent state (...)

26 - 02 - 2014
Business leader asks Egyptian PM to reopen factories
CAIRO: Chief Executive of the Federation of Egyptian Investors Union today sent a memo to Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri requesting the reopening of all factories in the country. “The Federation asked all of its affiliated associations (...)

13 - 12 - 2011
German ambassador: We will not rush in evaluating new political forces
German ambassador in Cairo Michael Bock said he is watching new political forces that appeared after the first phase of parliamentary elections in Egypt. “It is too early to evaluate these forces,” Bock said. Bock also said they are studying (...)

09 - 12 - 2011
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