Professors of six state universities have announced that they would go on strike Saturday to demand the resignation of their presidents. They said colleagues of other state universities would go on partial strike to express solidarity.
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About 200 students and professors from Ain Shams University staged protests on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of their president, Maged al-Deeb,
and the election of new faculty deans.
Students and professors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
COPENHAGEN: The hectic final day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) went from hectic, to confusing, to desperate, to hopeful. All in less than 24 hours. But the day is far from over, and a deal is not yet in our grasp.
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COPENHAGEN: And so the UN Climate Change Conference came to its conclusion. A quiet, miserable conclusion, according to most countries. There was no cheering or hailing. Even the politicians could not sell it to the people. Everyone could see (...)
COPENHAGEN: The final agreement is less than 24 hours away and, for the first time in maybe a week, there are some positive news coming out of COP15.
More than 130 world leaders have arrived, or are arriving in the next few hours, to Copenhagen. (...)
COPENHAGEN: With over 120 state leaders gathering in the Bella Center in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference, security was heightened considerably. The police cordoned off the whole area around the conference venue. In fact, there was no (...)
COPENHAGEN: Yesterday, the high-level segment of the COP15 discussions start, signaling that an end for the UN Climate Change Conference is close at hand. The Bella Center, which is the venue for the conference, is busier than usual, with everyone (...)
COPENHAGEN: Today was easily the worst day of the conference. It was a complete disappointment for everyone.
First, journalists and delegates got stuck for several hours in the cold waiting to get in. While I was lucky to only wait 90 minutes, (...)
COPENHAGEN: The first week of the COP15 meeting is over and after a day of well-deserved break, everyone is back for the high profile segment of the conference. Ministers and leaders are flying in now, this is the time when a monumental decision (...)
COPENHAGEN: I decided to take some minutes away from the hectic running back and forth to attend sessions in the UN Conference of Climate Change (COP15), taking place in the Danish capital Copenhagen, to grab some lunch. I stood in a long line and (...)
COPENHAGEN: The hopeful and optimistic mood at the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference did not last for too long. On Wednesday, it was replaced by anger, disappointment and mistrust over the emergence of the infamous so-called “leaked (...)
COPENHAGEN: On the second day of the United Nations Climate Change Summit and the momentum is still building up. It has left many observers curious as to what effect will the protests, demonstrations, and one “spiritual cleansing of the spirit†(...)
In contrast to the freezing streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) is hot with anticipation as the buildup for the historic conference culminates. The buzz is in the air and everyone is excited. But what exactly (...)
CAIRO: Enara, age 11 of Dandara, Zimbabwe, cried in 2002 as she described the difficulties of daily living after being left orphaned by AIDS.
More than 20 years after the breakout of the Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the pandemic still (...)