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Articles of the author Yehia Darwish
Agricultural temp workers demonstrate for fulltime rights
CAIRO: The Ministry of Agriculture's temporary workers demonstrated in front of the ministry's building in Dokki against ill-treatment and low wages, demanding the rights of their full-time counterparts. Temporary workers said they form up to 75 (...)

12 - 04 - 2009
Egypt posts Thailand travel advisory
CAIRO: In light of ongoing unrest in Thailand, Egypt's foreign ministry told its citizens to be wary when traveling to the country, the official MENA news agency reported. Moustafa El-Guindy, deputy assistant foreign minister for consular affairs (...)

12 - 04 - 2009
Local press slams Nasrallah
CAIRO: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's admission that his Shia group is operating in Egypt caused an uproar in the local press, who branded him a "war criminal and called him "The Monkey Sheikh. In a televised speech on Friday, Nasrallah said (...)

12 - 04 - 2009
Word on the Street: Egyptians pessimistic, indifferent about unemployment rates
CAIRO: A staggering 300,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs in 2009, the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services warned as President Hosni Mubarak called for creating new job opportunities nationwide. Indifference and pessimism were (...)

02 - 04 - 2009
New Guinness record for Egyptian adventurer
CAIRO: Hisham Nessim, a renowned adventurer, has set a new world record, driving solo across an inhospitable stretch of the Western Desert, called the Great Sand Sea, then up North towards the Siwa oasis in a record five hours and 33 (...)

13 - 03 - 2009
Mamdouh Ismail, three others found guilty in Salam ferry case
CAIRO: The Safaga Appeals Court found Mamdouh Ismail, owner of the sunken Al-Salam 98 ferry, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced him to seven years in prison on Wednesday. More than 1,000 died when the ferry sank on its way from (...)

11 - 03 - 2009
Death sentence final for 10 Kafr El Sheikh rapists
CAIRO: The Criminal Court of Kafr El Sheikh has reinforced the death sentence of 10 rapists, and a 15-year prison term handed down to a 17-year-old minor issued in January 2009. In 2006 the 11 men had kidnapped 28-year-old Fatma Mahmoud Amin at (...)

05 - 03 - 2009
Information minister meets with TV protestors
CAIRO: Minister of Information Anas El-Fiqi promised to include National TV employees in the Egyptian Television and Radio Union's (ERTU) restructuring plans in response to protests over the past two days. Mahasen El-Sinousy, a reporter in Akhbar (...)

04 - 03 - 2009
Akon concert organizer released on bail
CAIRO: Tamer Abdel Moneim, who heads the company responsible for organizing the Akon concert at the Opera House last weekend, was released from police custody on LE 10,000 bail on Saturday. Abdel Moneim had been arrested on the same day for (...)

02 - 03 - 2009
Back to school: Kefaya calls for strike on first day
CAIRO: The Kefaya movement called on students and teachers to strike today, the first day of the new school year, under the slogan Make the 20th a day for peaceful protest against policies of humiliation and degradation. George Ishaq, former (...)

19 - 09 - 2008
MB frown upon group's portrayal in 'Nasser' drama
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood Political Bureau Chairman Esam El-Erian criticized the portrayal of the Brotherhood in "Nasser, a biographical TV series currently being aired, according to Ikhwanweb.com. The drama follows the life of Egypt's (...)

18 - 09 - 2008
New CAPMAS study shows unemployment slightly decreasing
CAIRO: Unemployment rates in Egypt have slightly dropped from 8.9 percent to 8.4 percent, according to a new report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The Egyptian labor force increased from 23.6 million to (...)

18 - 09 - 2008
Civil rights activists condemn 'torture' of Egyptians in Kuwaiti prisons
CAIRO: During a conference held at the Journalists Syndicate Monday, journalists and civil rights activists lashed out against the impotence of the Egyptian embassy in Kuwait regarding the mistreatment of Egyptians in Kuwaiti prisons. The (...)

16 - 09 - 2008
Paralympics athletes receive boost before September competition
CAIRO: A couple of weeks before Egypt's athletes head to Beijing for the 2008 summer Paralympics, the team gathered at a press conference to receive support from their sponsors. The Egyptian Paralympics Committee (EPC), headed and represented by (...)

25 - 08 - 2008
Lawyers' Syndicate elections attract different political streams
CAIRO: The judicial committee supervising the Lawyers' Syndicate elections received Tuesday 10 applications for the chairman position along with 78 applications for other seats. The applicants represent a wide array of ideologies and (...)

22 - 08 - 2008
Draft anti-terrorism law on hold
CAIRO: The new anti-terrorism law needs further examination and may not be presented to the Shoura Council and People's Assembly during the upcoming parliamentary session, said Mufid Shehab, Minister of State for Legal Affairs and Parliamentary (...)

20 - 08 - 2008
Pakistan's Musharraf steps down
CAIRO: President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation after Pakistan's new coalition government accused him of impeding economic development and democracy. In a live televised hour long speech, he vowed to leave office while assuring that (...)

18 - 08 - 2008
The Sphinx Deemed Safe as Groundwater Removal goes Underway
CAIRO: Within two months the Archeological Engineering Center at Cairo University (AEC) will pump out the underground water in the area surrounding the Sphinx in a LE 2 million project, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of (...)

13 - 08 - 2008
TMG shares drop amid rumors that chairman fled the country
CAIRO: Egyptian construction guru Hisham Talaat Moustafa, chairman of Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG), called for the drafting of legislation criminalizing rumor mongering in the Egyptian stock market to protect Egypt's economy, according to Egyptian (...)

10 - 08 - 2008
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