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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:18:00 GMT

In pictures: Cairo rockslide

Residents were in a state of shock and disbelief as they surveyed the scene of devastation where their homes once stood.

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Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:01:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.menassat.com

A recent study by an Egyptian women's rights group claims that a whopping 83 percent of Egyptian women have been exposed to sexual harassment of some kind. Various groups have launched media campaigns to raise awareness, but some of them appear to be blaming the victims.

In June this year, the Cairo-based Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) released an alarming study on sexual harassment in Egypt, describing the issue as "a cancer-like problem."

According to the survey, 83 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women said they had experienced sexual harassment.

More than half of the Egyptian men questioned for the survey, 62 percent, admitted to having harassed women, and 53 percent of them blamed the women for "bringing it on."

These shocking statistics have shocked a number of groups into taking action, embarking on media campaigns to raise awareness of and advocate against sexual harassment.

Tags: egypt, women, study

Extraordinary rendition: An Australian's story

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:37:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Most of his fingernails were missing and he regularly bled from the nose, mouth, and ears while he slept."

Clip Source: www.atimes.com

Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was living in Sydney with his wife and four children when he took a trip alone to Pakistan

When Habib boarded a bus for the Islamabad airport to return home, Pakistani police seized him

After 15 days in the Pakistani prison, Habib was transferred to

United States agents who flew him to Cairo. When he arrived, Omar Solaimon, chief of Egyptian security, informed him that Egypt receives US$10 million for every confessed terrorist they hand over to the US.

during his five months in Egypt, "there was no interrogation, only torture". His skin was burned with cigarettes, and he was threatened with dogs, beaten, and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun.

American agents sent Habib to Guantanamo Bay. Three British detainees

Most of his fingernails were missing and he regularly bled from the nose, mouth, and ears while he slept.

Rather than have

testimony on the torture

US officials decided to send him back to Sydney in January 2005

Tags: rendition, war on terror, war crimes

poetry

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:18:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.adab.com

" No people in the world manifest such enthusiastic admiration for literary expression and are so moved by the word, spoken or written, as the Arabs. Modern audiences in Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo can be stirred to the highest degree by the recital of poems, only vaguely comprehended, and by the delivery of orations in the classical tongue, though it be only partially understood. The rhythm, the rhyme, the music, produce on them the effect of what they call "lawful magic (sihr halal). "

Philip K Hitti, History of the Arabs

Tags: poetry

No more 4 gospels.

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:28:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now they prove the Holy Quran to be right. Muslims always rejected the 4 gospels. They only believe in one true gospel. The Christians are coming closer.

Clip Source: www.islamonline.net

"New Bible" Sparks US Debate

CAIRO — A major US Christian publisher is readying to publish the first-ever chronologically-ordered Bible, sparking a hot debate among Christian clergy, the Washington Post reported Saturday, August 23.

The new edition will have the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John merged into one, based on Mark's chronology.

Some of St. Paul's letters, which traditionally appear later in the New Testament, are woven into the Book of Acts.

The new Bible is sparking a hot debate among Christian clergy in the US.

"This Bible should have a warning from the theologian general or something: 'This Bible may be harmful to your spiritual health.'," said Pat Graham, a professor at Emory University.

"Sphinx statues found in Egypt"

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080815/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeology_080815175401;_ylt=Aql76p0o10nJAu9HFMNWB8xFeQoB

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CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed four small statues of the Sphinx, the mythological figure of a lion with a human head, the Higher Council of Antiquities said on Friday.

The headless sandstone statues were found on a road linking the ancient temples of Luxor and Karnak in southern Egypt, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said in a statement.

They were unearthed in an area once occupied by a police station that was demolished as part of a project to rescue artifacts, Hawass said.

The statues date from the reign of King Nekhtnebef who founded the 30th Pharaonic dynasty (363-380 BC), Hawass added.

The same team of archaeologists also found a sandstone block engraved with the name of Queen Cleopatra.

Rebels with a cause: Egypt's 'Facebook Youth'

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:10:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.menassat.com

Egypt is continuing to crack down on Internet users, be it the thirty young activists who were arrested in Alexandria in July and have since become known as the 'Facebook Youth,' or the new rules requiring WiFi users in Cairo's cafes to provide their personal information.

BEIRUT, August 12, 2008 (MENASSAT) – It was supposed to be a day-trip to the beach, and a commemoration of Egypt's 1952 revolution. But the day turned ugly when some thirty young Egyptians were arrested on July 23 in Alexandria for openly opposing the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.

Many of the young activists detained were in their late teens and early twenties. They have since become known as "The Facebook Youth" because they were all members of the 64,000 member-strong Facebook group linked to the opposition April 6 Movement.

Fourteen of the detained activists were released between July 31 and August 4. None have been formally charged.

Tags: egypt, facebook, youth

WOMEN TRIED OF JUST OBJECT TO MARRY !

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:35:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How much do we loose when we hold to tight to tradition ? To bad they can't wake up to the fact that girls just want to be and with girls sometimes.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Spotlight on Egypt's marriage crisis

"I want to get married" is a perfectly normal thing to say for a young Egyptian man. But when a girl says it in such a conservative society - let alone writes a book with that title - she is making a political statement.

She says her target is not Egyptian men but a tradition known as "gawwaz el-salonat" (living room marriage), where a stranger is brought to the family home and the daughter must decide whether to marry him on the basis of this brief encounter.

Sociologist Madeeha al-Safty of the American University in Cairo believes one consequence is sexual harassment of women and rape reaching unprecedented levels in Egypt.

angie darby

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:40:52 GMT

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Clip Source: au.lifestyle.yahoo.com

Angie Darby

Date of Birth: 2.05.1987

Discipline: Modern Pentathlon

Hometown: Drysdale (Regional Victoria) / Melbourne

Blog
Read Angie's March blog

Angie has only spent two and a half years competing in the Modern Pentathlon but the young athlete has a promising career. Angie won the 2007 Oceania championships in Japan in May and is one of the first Australian athletes to qualify for next year's Beijing Olympics.

Modern pentathlon is made up of five disciplines -- a 200m freestyle swim, a cross-country run, shooting, show jumping and fencing.

After a year of competition Angie had competed in the 2006 Junior World Championships in Shanghai and two senior World Cups in Cairo and Rome.

Angie is internationally the highest ranked Australian Junior and Senior athlete, with the last three Victorian state championships under her belt.

Producing such impressive results in such a short period of time, Angie is looking for Gold in Beijing.

Egypt to test fetuses for Tutankhamun family tree

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:32:00 GMT

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Egypt to test fetuses for Tutankhamun family tree

Wed Aug 6, 2008 2:05pm EDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Wednesday.

British archaeologist Howard Carter found the mummified fetuses when he discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. Archaeologists assume they are the children of the teenage pharaoh but their mother has not been identified.

Many scholars believe their mother to be Ankhesenamun, the boy king's only known wife. Ankhesenamun is the daughter of Nefertiti, renowned for her beauty.

"For the first time we will be able to identify the family of King Tut," Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, told Reuters. "This should allow us for the first time to discover the mummy of Nefertiti."

Tags: archaeology

DNA tests for Tutankhamun's unborn daughters

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:30:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Egyptian scientists are to carry out DNA tests on two mummified foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine whether they are daughters of the young pharaoh, Egypt's supreme council of antiquities said yesterday. The foetuses, discovered in the tomb in Luxor in 1922, may be his stillborn children.

Until recently there had been no archaeological indication that the pharaoh who died more than 3,000 years ago aged about 19, left any offspring. Zahi Hawass, the head of the Egyptian antiquities, said the tests will also try to determine Tutankhamun's family lineage, a source of ambiguity among many Egyptologists.

Scholars believe that Tutankhamun married his half-sister, Ankhesenamun - the third daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten by his wife Nefertiti, when he was 12 but that the couple had no surviving children

the mummified foetuses have been kept in storage at the Cairo school of medicine and have never been displayed

ambitious plans for DNA testing all the royal mummies

Egypt to test fetuses for Tutankhamun family tree

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:32:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti

Archaeologists assume they are the children of the teenage pharaoh but their mother has not been identified

Many scholars believe their mother to be Ankhesenamun, the boy king's only known wife. Ankhesenamun is the daughter of Nefertiti, renowned for her beauty

The DNA tests and computerized tomography (CT) scans, to be performed at Cairo University, should be finished by December, Hawass said

Egypt has been trying to check the identity of all its royal mummies using DNA and CT scans. Tutankhamun's was one of the first mummies to be examined with the technology in 2005

Tags: egypt, mummy, tests, dna, tutankhamun, pharaoh

Senior al qaeda commander killed in Pakistan

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:27:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Progress in one short paragraph.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

World in brief: Abu Khabab al-Masri killed in US airstrike

Cairo Al-Qaeda confirmed in a web statement that Abu Khabab al-Masri, a senior commander, had been killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan last week along with three other leaders. (AP)

Tags: al qaeda, war on terror, progress

What the worlds eat

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:55:28 GMT

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What the world eats

This is fascinating. From Time magazine: What the World Eats. 15 different homes around the globe show the kind and amount of food eaten.

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Family recipe: Okra and mutton

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

62% of Egyptian men regularly harass women

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:06:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The sexual harassment committed by Egyptian men included touching without permission, staring, making insulting sexual comments and exposing their genitals to women.

Fifty-three percent of the male respondents said women were to blame for sexual harassment because they enjoyed it and because they dressed in revealing clothing. Most women who were harassed did not file a complaint with the police and most incidents took place in the street, public transportation or tourist sites.

Clip Source: www.jpost.com

Almost two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women and believe their victims bring it on themselves when they wear tight and revealing clothes, according to a study released over the weekend by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights in Cairo.

Some 20,000 rape cases were reported in 2006, according to a report published by the Egyptian National Center for Criminal and Social Research last year.

Half of local and foreign women surveyed were sexually harassed in some way, according to the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights study.

Ninety-eight percent of the foreign women, who visited Egypt for tourist, educational and professional reasons, said they experienced sexual harassment during their stay.

Furthermore, 88% of respondents, women and men, had witnessed an incident involving sexual harassment.

Of the Egyptians men surveyed, 62.4% said they had perpetrated and/or "continue to perpetrate" harassment of women.

Tags: egypt, women, sexual assault, islam, muslims