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Articles of the author Abul Soud Mohamed Mohamed Kamel
Cairo University scrutinizes candidates ahead of faculty elections
The security department at Cairo University has prepared a report on the candidates running in the upcoming faculty elections, classifying them according to their political inclinations, thus reviving a practice common in Egyptian universities (...)

19 - 09 - 2011
Students plan protests on Tuesday calling for dismissal of university heads
University students and faculty members are planning to hold protests on Tuesday to call for the dismissal of the heads of state-owned universities, and demand that new heads be elected. Seventeen student movements have agreed to participate in the (...)

12 - 09 - 2011
Timetable announced for university leadership elections
Higher Education Minister Moataz Khorshid announced on Monday the elections timetable for state university leadership posts, as well as the mechanisms by which elections will be conducted. Candidates for the elections will be invited to submit their (...)

05 - 09 - 2011
Fifty-two education movements to protest next Wednesday
Fifty-two education movements and associations announced Friday they would participate in a "teacher's demonstration" scheduled for next Wednesday, 10 September in front of the cabinet in Garden City. At the protest, teachers plan to demand the (...)

02 - 09 - 2011
University leaders to be chosen by faculty electoral committee
Higher Education Minister Motaz Khorshed said Wednesday that deans of state-owned universities will now be elected by committees comprised of all types of faculty members, including part-time professors. The minister explained that departments with (...)

31 - 08 - 2011
German ambassador supports Tahrir protesters regarding trials
Germany's ambassador to Egypt has backed protesters at Tahrir Square in their denunciations of the slow pace of trials for police officers accused of killing protesters and former officials of the Mubarak regime. Thousands of Egyptians took part in (...)

10 - 07 - 2011
Faculty of Arts at Cairo University holds elections for new dean
The Faculty of Arts at Cairo University conducted on Saturday its first internal elections for the position of dean, which will become vacant at the end of July. Seven professors are competing to succeed the current dean, Zein al-Abidine Abu (...)

11 - 06 - 2011
Minister: Special offer for Egyptian citizens to encourage domestic tourism
Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said on Saturday that a program to encourage domestic tourism will be launched by the end of the week, featuring cooperation between Egyptair, Al-Ahly Bank and the Ministry of Tourism. The (...)

29 - 05 - 2011
Cairo University professors charged with encouraging demos
Cairo University has referred three professors of mass communication to a disciplinary council for allegedly inciting students to stage protests on campus. Among them is Professor Mahmoud Khalil, who has been highly critical of the university's (...)

15 - 05 - 2011
Antique coins stolen from Cairo University museum
A number of items have gone missing from the museum at Cairo University's faculty of archaeology, according to a press statement from the university on Wednesday. The statement said that a few ancient coins have gone missing from the museum, which (...)

11 - 05 - 2011
University professors demand sweeping changes
The Coalition of University Professors on Monday organized protests at universities in Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut and Mansoura, demanding the removal of their administrations by the end of this academic year and the election of new ones. The (...)

09 - 05 - 2011
Cairo University students demonstrate against military police
Students of Cairo University on Thursday staged demonstrations in protest against military police using taser stun guns to disperse a sit-in by students of the faculty of mass communications. The students said they will stage a sit-in elsewhere on (...)

24 - 03 - 2011
Egypt removes NDP related content in education curricula
The Egyptian Education Ministry, headed by Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa, will remove roughly 20 percent of educational material in Egypt's school curricula, ministry sources said on Tuesday. The removals will come in each subject and all grades and will (...)

08 - 03 - 2011
Trade & Industry employees say ministry bribed State Security officers
Employees of Egypt's Trade and Industry Ministry have reportedly sent a notice to Attorney-General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces alleging that the ministry used to pay 72 high-ranking officers associated with the (...)

03 - 03 - 2011
Citing potential harm to men''s ''sensitive spots,'' activist urges film ban
Mahmoud Hanfy Mahmoud, head of the complaints department at the Association for Human rights and Social Justice, has demanded in an official complaint to the attorney general that the Egyptian film entitled "678," which addresses the issue of sexual (...)

27 - 12 - 2010
Authorities investigate torture case at Sohag police department
The general prosecution services of Sohag Governorate, located in Upper Egypt, have launched investigations into the alleged torture of an Egyptian man and his son at a local police station. Police prosecutors summoned Mohamed Abul Ezz, the officer (...)

22 - 12 - 2010
Movement to sue ministers to implement university guards ban
The 9 March Group for the Independence of Egypt's Universities has decided to file a new lawsuit against the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Interior and Higher Education to push for the implementation of an Administrative Court ruling banning (...)

04 - 12 - 2010
Activists stage march against violence, sexual harassment
Activists and members of civil society organizations held a protest march at Cairo University on Tuesday to call for a Cairo "free of violence and sexual harassment." Family and Population Minister Moushira Khattab, who participated in the march, (...)

22 - 11 - 2010
9 March movement to resume awareness campaign on campus security ban
The 9 March group for the independence of Egyptian universities has decided to continue its campaign to spread awareness among university staff and students concerning the campus security court ruling in December. The group said it will resume its (...)

15 - 11 - 2010
Teachers clash with campus security at Ain Shams University
Members of the 9 March Teachers Movement for the Independence of Universities were assaulted by chain-wielding thugs after they attempted to stage demonstrations at Cairo's Ain Shams University to protest the presence of security forces on (...)

04 - 11 - 2010
Egypt space agency: Israel can''t assume control of runaway satellite
Neither Israel--nor any other country other than Egypt--has the ability to assume control of Egypt's EgySat 1 satellite, Ayman al-Dessouky, head of the state-run National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, said on Sunday. The 17-kg (...)

25 - 10 - 2010
Ain Shams University bans niqab-wearing teachers from lectures
Ain Shams University President Dr. Maged al-Dib stated during an open discussion with university students and faculty members Wednesday morning that the university has decided to ban niqab-wearing faculty members from teaching at the university and (...)

30 - 09 - 2010
British index ranks Cairo University in world''s top 500
Cairo University is featured among the world's best educational institutions for the fifth year running, according to the British QS Top Universities ranking. Cairo University's vice president for post-graduate studies, Hussein Khaled, said the (...)

20 - 09 - 2010
Cairo U. to award first lady honorary doctorate; past awardee ElBaradei ignored
Cairo University will be awarding Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak an honorary doctorate on Thursday. Guests at the ceremony will be greeted with poster-sized photos of the most important figures to have received the distinction in the past 30 (...)

15 - 09 - 2010
Student tells Mubarak Jr: I fear power succession
At a three-hour meeting with 500 university students on Sunday at the Leaders Preparation Institute, Gamal Mubarak, son of President Hosni Mubarak and assistant secretary general and policies secretary for the National Democratic Party (NDP), faced (...)

02 - 08 - 2010
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