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The Egyptian private sector is taking the lead in restoring the Holy Family sites which are being promoted as a destination for religious tourism in June 2000. On 1 June next year, modern-day pilgrims from around the globe will follow the route the Holy Family took from Sinai through the Delta to...
Cairo governorate this week celebrated the passage of 1,400 years of Islam in Egypt. The celebration was held in Amr Ibn Al As mosque amidst 10,000 worshippers participating in the ceremony. The district the mosque sits is one of the most ancient in the Islamic world. It witnessed the Islamic...
In an attempt to restore the Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque to its original state, the Culture Ministry signed a restoration contract this week with the public sector Nile Valley Company. The scheme will correct serious architectural flaws made in earlier restoration programmes as well as when the mosque was...
Al-Wafd newspaper has finished its tour in Upper Egypt, in particular visiting the governorate of Al-Minya and Assiut and some of the monasteries there. And what it has found is shocking. The tour showed the degree of carelessness suffered by the officials in the Ministry of Culture. The officials...
The People’s Assembly’s Culture Committee was the scene of stormy debates this week over the Culture Ministry’s plans to organize a celebration marking the advent of the next millennium. Among other questions that the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni was asked, was this one: "The celebration will be...
Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni managed, to a large extent, on Sunday [May 23, 199], to win the support of Shura Council members for some of his decisions, especially the relocation of the Museum of Islamic Arts to the Citadel area and the organization of an international celebration to...
A member of the Maglis Al-Shaab [the People’s Assembly] accused the Ministries of Culture and Information of going against the teaching so of Islam when they organized a beauty queen pageant. He was supported by other members who said the contest was a Zionist conspiracy to remove the honor of...
A joint committee has been set up by the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Waqfs [Endowments] to start a program that will celebrate the occasion of the fourteen hundredth anniversary of the entry of Islam into Egypt.
"Its a conspiracy against our cultural heritage"; "a hidden agenda that aims at eradicating our identity"; "it is the destruction of the history of the Islamic nation" - the "it" being a reference to a controversial decision taken by minister of culture, Farouk Hosni, to disperse the permanent...
The History and Antiquities Committee of the Higher Council of Culture held a symposium on April 18-19, at the Cairo University library. The symposium concerned the national role played by the Egyptian Church throughout history. The symposium was attended by a number of researchers and historians...

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