Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2021
UNESCO announced that an Egyptian team from the University of Alexandria won the international competition to rebuild the al-Nūrī Mosque Complex in Mosul, Iraq. The team was led by Professor of Architecture Dr. Ṣalāḥ al-Harīdī and included eight other Egyptian architects.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2021
American President Joe Biden’s decision to completely withdraw American military forces from Afghanistan by this upcoming September 11 has serious implications. It is the end of an era that began with the 9/11 terrorist attacks and had witnessed the American invasion of Afghanistan, the war on...
Date of source: Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Coptic Orthodox Church, headed by Pope Tawāḍrūs II mourned the martyr Nabīl Ḥabashī, who was killed today by terrorist cells affiliated with Dāʿish.
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 2021
On Thursday morning, the Egyptian leftist patriot Albert Arie died at the age of 91. He is the oldest Egyptian Jew who stayed in Cairo and refused to leave. He has always been known as a vivid memory of the Egyptian leftist movement, and the development of Egypt’s artistic and literary history.
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2021
The Egyptian representative, Major General Yaḥyā al-Kidwānī, a member of the House of Representatives’ Defense and National Security Committee, denied having discussions held by the House on any recent law submitted, either by the government or by a member of the Parliament, concerning the removal...
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Egyptian novelist Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī spent several years struggling for women’s rights and demanding their liberation from social restraints. Born in 1931, al-Saʿdāwī was a psychologist and feminist who made her way into literature, writing several books like “Memoirs of a Woman Doctor” and “The...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2021
A wave of anger and accusation has sparked since the killing of a women in al-Salām district. The incident occurred on Thursday, when the woman was thrown from the balcony of her apartment on the sixth floor by three people, due to allegations by the property’s guard regarding her behaviour. The...
Date of source: Saturday, March 13, 2021
‘ Egypt will remain a state of law and institutions… and will not accept a group of individuals assaulting others’. Dr. Māyā Mursī, head of The National Council for Women (NCW), commented on an incident in which a landlord, his wife, and another resident threw a 34 year old female doctor from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Public Prosecution requested that witnesses to the sexual assault of a girl at the Fairmont Nile City Hotel in 2014 provide video of the incident to the authorities. The prosecution stressed in a statement that it will keep the confidentiality of the witnesses involved and protect them.
Date of source: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Today, Dr. Muḥamad Mukhtār Jumʿa, Minister of Religious Endowments, welcomed Dr. ʿĀdil Bin ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-ʿAsūmī, president of the Arab Parliament, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council for Islamic affairs. The meeting witnessed the presence of several officials and ambassadors.