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Articles of the author Dareen Farghaly
Parliament hopefuls deploy child campaigners during Sunday''s run-offs
Candidates vying for parliamentary seats in Sunday's election run-offs reportedly used children as young as five years old to aid them in their campaigning efforts. The children hit the streets at 7:00 AM on the day of the vote, brandishing banners (...)

06 - 12 - 2010
Al-Ahram chairman:doctored Mubarak photo well-received by authorities
Chairman of Al-Ahram newspaper Abdel Monem Saeed said he has not received any complaints from authorities concerning the publishing of a photoshopped picture of leaders in negotiations held recently in Washington to put Mubarak ahead of the other (...)

25 - 09 - 2010
Interview: Former chief medical examiner on Khaled Saeed autopsy
Dr. Ayman Fouda has worked in the field of forensic medicine for 40 years and held the position of chief medical examiner for two years from 2005. He shared his thoughts with Al-Masry Al-Youm on the state of forensic medicine in Egypt and the recent (...)

30 - 06 - 2010
Medical society launches initiative to save cardiac patients
The Egyptian Cardiology Society has launched a new initiative to save cardiac patients from sudden death, said Dr.Mohamed Sobhy, head of the Society. The initiative involves training workers at metro and train stations to provide first aid to (...)

13 - 06 - 2010
Tanta nurses infected with hepatitis C virus
Several nurses from Tanta University Hospital said they contracted the hepatitis C virus during blood transfusions at the hospital. The testimonies of these nurses were recorded for a video exclusive by Al-Masry Al-Youm. A nurse from the endoscopy (...)

03 - 04 - 2010
ElBaradei willing "to run against anyone"
"I'm willing to run against anyone in upcoming presidential elections if the public wants me to," former International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei said on Sunday during an interview on a popular television talk show. "I'm no (...)

22 - 02 - 2010
Alex canal district yields tainted salt
Al-Masry Al-Youm's recent tour of Alexandria's Mariouteya canal district revealed that the salt produced therein--which accounts for 75 percent of Egypt's total salt production--had been contaminated with industrial waste, sewage and animal (...)

02 - 02 - 2010
National breast cancer rate doubles
The number of cases of breast cancer in Egypt has doubled in recent years, with 45 out of every 100 cancer patients now suffering from breast cancer, according to a leading local scientist. Dr. Salah el-Misidy, professor of cancer and nuclear (...)

14 - 01 - 2010
Justice Ministry stonewalling ElBaradei and Moussa campaigns
The Ministry of Justice is intentionally stalling proxies for Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa, sources have told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Sources say that the ministry has issued directives to notary agents nationwide to offer pretexts for delaying the (...)

03 - 01 - 2010
Hawamdiya sugar company forces father to retract allegations
A health ministry committee took water samples from the home of Sheikh Hassan Haddad after Al-Masry Al-Youm ran an investigative feature in which Haddad indicated that his sons' kidney failure was due to water in Hawamdiya being polluted by a sugar (...)

25 - 11 - 2009
Waste on the Nile: a 100-year legacy
Hassan Ahmed, a 70-year-old blacksmith, leans on his cane gazing at the Hawamdiya Sugar and Integrated Industries Company (SIIC), watching workers from one of six factories in the area wash huge metal containers with sulfuric acid. The acid, (...)

17 - 11 - 2009
Legends of the fall: Dweiqa one year on
The 2008 Dweiqa landslide tragedy -- which took the lives of hundreds of people -- is still vivid in the memory of local residents, who continue to live in fear of boulders crashing down upon them. All they can do is pray for God's protection from (...)

15 - 11 - 2009
A sad state of affairs
The platform is full. People have been waiting a long time for the train. Some are sitting on the floor -- it's been a long day for them. Then they hear the siren -- the train's finally coming. They start to move. A 60-year-old woman leans on her (...)

15 - 11 - 2009
Village on the edge
At first sight, with the women of Al-Hassanein Village washing their clothes and cookware on the banks of the Nile, the casual visitor might think he or she was witnessing a scene from the middle ages. The unpaved streets of the village, which (...)

15 - 11 - 2009
Nineteen new swine flu cases in Egypt
The Ministry of Health announced 19 new swine flu cases bringing the total number of infections in Egypt to 1,145 cases. Meanwhile, approximately 5,000 people have died from the flu worldwide. The new cases include four students from the Saint (...)

24 - 10 - 2009
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