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Articles of the author Nabil Abu Shal
Bibliotheca Alexandrina workers protest to dismiss director
More than 1500 workers staged a protest on Wednesday outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, preventing the director, Ismail Serag Eddin, and other officials from accessing the library and demanding they be sacked. Workers at the (...)

26 - 10 - 2011
Prosecution orders the arrest of police officers accused of killing Salafi
The Alexandria Prosecution has ordered the arrest of the police officers accused of torturing and killing Sayed Belal, a Salafi who died in detention after being arrested for investigation into the New Year's Eve bombing of the Two Saints Church in (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
30 undocumented migrants found dead at sea
Security forces have discovered the corpses of 30 undocumented migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, north of Alexandria. Preliminary reports said that young men from the governorates of Kafr al-Sheikh, Gharbiya, Damietta and Alexandria drowned while (...)

29 - 07 - 2011
Alexandria demonstrators decry interior ministry reforms
More than 1000 protesters in Alexandria participated in a "Last Warning Friday" demonstration to protest recent attempts at reform by the interior minister, staging a march after Friday prayers that began at Leader Ibrahim Mosque and ended at the (...)

15 - 07 - 2011
Alexandria governor resigns
Alexandria governor Essam Salem submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday evening to Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet. Salem said in a statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm that he could no longer bear the burden of his office. He added that (...)

14 - 07 - 2011
Bedouins kidnap television show cast, refuse to release on ransom
Armed Bedouins kidnapped Egyptian movie star Khaled El Sawy and 250 others from the cast and crew of the new TV series “Solomon's Ring” on Tuesday while an episode was shot in Sidi Kreir, west of Alexandria. The kidnappers refused to accept LE10,000 (...)

12 - 07 - 2011
Trial of police officers postponed after victims'' familes clash with defense lawyers
The trial of several police officers accused of killing demonstrators during the recent uprising was adjourned on Monday after the families of the victims clashed with the lawyers of the defendants at the Alexandria Criminal Court. The case is set (...)

20 - 06 - 2011
Army thwarts prisoner escape attempt in Alexandria
Relatives of five men detained by police in Alexandria failed in an attempt to free them from a police van that was transporting them to prison. They attacked the van, setting fire to it and destroying it. However, the military managed to transport (...)

26 - 05 - 2011
Khaled Saeed case postponed until end of June
The Alexandria Criminal Court decided Saturday to postpone until 30 June the sentencing of the police officers from Sidi Gaber police station who are accused of killing Khaled Saeed. Mahmoud Salah and Awad Ismail are accused of taking the (...)

21 - 05 - 2011
Salafis in Alexandria protest murder of convert to Islam
Thousands of Salafis in Alexandria on Sunday protested against the killing of a Christian woman named Salwa Adel who converted to Islam eight years ago and married a Muslim called Khaled Ibrahim. Local news reports on Saturday said her three (...)

24 - 04 - 2011
Thousands protest Alexandria governor appointment
Thousands of university professors, Muslim Brothers and 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition members protested the appointment of a new Alexandria governor, who they say belongs to Mubarak's regime. Protesters described newly-appointed Governor (...)

22 - 04 - 2011
Sawiris: I won''t run for president
At a rally in Alexandria to declare the Free Egyptians Party's principles, billionaire party co-founder Naguib Sawiris said he would not run for president of the country or the party. Sawiris also said that he advocates for Constitutional Article 2, (...)

15 - 04 - 2011
New threads cast doubt on suicide-bombing scenario in Egypt church blast
Judicial sources said witnesses to the New Year's Eve church bombing report having seen a person opening a manhole cover near the Church's entrance only minutes before the devastating blast took place. They suspected that the person seen opening the (...)

19 - 01 - 2011
Four Salafi suspects arrested over Alex church blast
Four Salafi Muslims have been detained for suspected involvement in the New Year's Eve Alexandria church bombing, security sources said. The suicide attack in front of the Church of St. Peter and St. Mark claimed 23 lives and injured 95. Al-Masry (...)

17 - 01 - 2011
Forensics authorities complete DNA profiling of Alex church bomb victims
Egypt's Forensic Examinations Authority has completed DNA profiling of the victims of the New Year's Eve church bombing in Alexandria, which left 23 people dead and 95 injured. The authority's forensics lab is continuing its examination of the body (...)

11 - 01 - 2011
Police struggle to tie loose ends in Alex church blast case
Egyptian security services are continuing to carry out intensive investigations into the New Year's Eve bombing of a church in Alexandria. Forensics experts are reportedly examining a decapitated head and two legs found in the blast debris in an (...)

04 - 01 - 2011
Alexandria factory collapse death toll rises to 26
Twenty-six people are now confirmed dead after a garment factory in Alexandria collapsed four days ago. Civil defense teams on Wednesday extricated six corpses from the rubble. The six-floor factory, located in Muharram Bey, east of Alexandria, (...)

15 - 12 - 2010
Farouk Hosni inaugurates 26th Alexandria Film Festival
The opening and closing ceremonies of the 26th Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries, hosted by the Alexandria Opera House, will be held from 14-19 September at the Sayyed Darwish Theater in Alexandria. The festival will be attended (...)

15 - 09 - 2010
ElBaradei supporters campaign in Upper Egypt, Alex
The National Association for Change (NAC), established by would-be presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei, has taken its signature-collecting campaign to Upper Egypt and Alexandria. The NAC hopes to collect a total of one million signatures for (...)

05 - 08 - 2010
NAC protest in Alex marks 40 days since Khaled Saeed killing
Yesterday, following the Friday prayer, the Alexandria branch of the National Association for Change (NAC) staged a protest marking 40 days since the death of Khaled Saeed, the young Alexandrian allegedly killed by two policemen. Around 250 (...)

17 - 07 - 2010
Alex conference calls for more media freedoms
The second meeting of the Arab Media Leaders Forum, which has gathered major media figures from around the Arab world, concluded on Friday at the Bibleotheca Alexandrina (BA). Ismael Serag Eddin, BA director, said the library is fully aware of the (...)

04 - 07 - 2010
2 Alex policemen detained in Khaled Saeed case
Alexandria District Attorney Yasir Rafai has ordered that Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suliman, policemen from the Sidi Gabr Police Department, be detained for four days pending investigation into allegations that they had used excessive (...)

30 - 06 - 2010
Alex murder inquiry reveals contradictions
The district prosecutor of Alexandria's Sidi Gaber district has accused the family of Khaled Saeed, the 29-year-old man allegedly killed by police early this month, of paying off eyewitnesses to give false testimony that Saeed had been beaten to (...)

28 - 06 - 2010
Alex victim''s body to be exhumed for second autopsy
The Alexandria chief coroner on Wednesday ordered the body of Khaled Saeed--allegedly murdered by police in Alexandria last week--to be exhumed for a second autopsy. The body was transported to the morgue amid heavy security. The Cairo-based (...)

16 - 06 - 2010
Street vendors, police clash in Alexandria
Alexandria—Hundreds of street vendors have clashed with security forces in el-Sa'a area in Montazah district in the coastal city of Alexandria to protest evacuation plans by police following several complaints from area residents. Vendors hurled (...)

12 - 06 - 2010
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