Cairo - Earlier this week, ‘Sameh Abdul-Hamid', a Salafi movement leader, made a statement about how it is important to engage Salafis in fighting ISIS-linked groups, spearheaded by both Al-Azhar and the army establishments.
In a Facebook's post, (...)
Cairo - Terrorist Organization 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh' published a new book dealing with various religious issues in Islamic World, focusing on Sufi Scholars and Orators and describing them as 'atheists'. The (...)
Right, so you and I and the guy next door are freaked out that Egypt will become another Afghanistan, with girls forbidden from going to school and bearded guys lining up to blow up the Pyramids and Sphinx because they are symbols of infidel (...)
Desert reclamation projects will always fail unless they can cater to the needs of average Egyptians, writes Rushdi Said*
The history of the land use of the Egyptian desert has been closely related to the problem of overcrowding in the Nile Valley, (...)
University Independence Day was celebrated yesterday at Cairo University's Centre for Development and Technology Planning. The theme of this year's celebration was "The Egyptian University between Public and Private Funding" and speakers included (...)
Rushdi Said shares his vision of an Egypt in which the desert is the new frontier and the Nile Valley is reclaimed as the nation's burgeoning garden
It was exactly 60 years ago that I obtained my Masters Degree in Science from Cairo University, long (...)
How did developing countries fare at the WTO negotiating table in Doha? Rushdy Abdel-Qader* assesses the meeting
The Doha ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which witnessed the adoption of the Doha Declaration to launch a new (...)
When the discovery of the two ancient cities of Heracleion and East Canopus under the waters of the Bay of Abu Qir was announced in the summer of 2000, attention was stirred worldwide. Rushdi Said finds the new interpretation for their disappearance (...)
Rushdi Said * examines the publicity maelstrom surrounding the Bahariya find
On 1 June many leading US newspapers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, announced that the bones of a giant plant-eating dinosaur had been unearthed in (...)
Will plans to redistribute Nile waters spell an end to agriculture as Egypt knows it? Rushdi Said assesses the situation
Of the 2,960,000 square kilometres that make up the Nile Valley basin, only a small portion is located in areas that receive (...)
Ten years on, how are we doing? Rather than indulge in vapid self-congratulation, the Weekly has asked some of its readers and contributors for objective assessments of our evolution. On the outside, looking in, they are the best judges of the (...)