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Go topSOURCE: HISTORY BY: DAVE ROOS By the time pharaohs like King Tut ruled Egypt, mummification was a codified practice that had started in the Old Kingdom period around 2500 B.C.—or so historians thought. Now, analysis shows that ancient Egyptians began passing down a standard embalming recipe more than 1,500 years earlier. The evidence comes from … Continued
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned on Sunday that Arab countries, including Egypt, were vulnerable to imploding from within under what he described as a barrage of rumours aimed at spreading instability. SOURCE: REUTERS Addressing a military academy graduation ceremony in Cairo, Sisi said that his government had detected 21,000 false rumours … Continued
Untouched for millennia, tomb was found during construction work in Alexandria SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: RUTH MICHAELSON Archaeologists are preparing to open a large black granite sarcophagus unearthed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. At almost two metres high and three metres in length, the sarcophagus is the largest of its kind to be … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer “You must walk Cairo’s Mu’izz li’Din Allah Street! It’s full of history. I’m still in awe at what I’ve seen.” Husn Abboud, a budding Arab Canadian writer seemed to be in a trance as she related to me the high point of her trip to Egypt. Now, a year … Continued
SOURCE: CAIRO SCENE BY: MOURAD AWAD The world’s largest coal-fuelled power plant will be built outside the Red Sea port of Hamrawein, according to Global Construction Review. It will be constructed by a Chinese consortium consisting of Dongfang Electric Corporation of Sichuan and Hassan Allam Construction of Egypt, after battling it out with 2 other conglomerates; … Continued
By Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer I often wondered why the Agha Khan with his wealth and influence would choose to spend his winters in Aswan – 900 km (559 mi) south of Cairo. Now, as I strolled down its wide Corniche admiring the city’s setting – the most charming on the Nile – I … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: PETER BEAUMONT The UN’s senior human rights official has castigated Israel, saying there is little evidence that its armed forces attempted to minimise casualties during protests by Palestinians this week during which dozens of demonstrators were killed. As a special session of the UN human rights council voted to set up a commission … Continued
SOURCE: REUTERS CAIRO (Reuters) – Sending Arab troops to Syria is a possibility that is being discussed by officials from various countries, Egypt’s foreign minister was quoted on Friday as saying. A view of a damaged site in Jobar, eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho But a foreign ministry spokesman said … Continued
By: John Mason/Arab America Contributing Writer It was Herodotus, the fifth century Greek attributed with the founding of the discipline of history, who purportedly said, “Egypt is the gift of the Nile.” It’s not even clear that he actually visited Egypt, but Herodotus’ phrase captures the sense that without that great river, there is no … Continued
By John Mason/Arab America Contributing Writer When my family and I arrived in Cairo, my new American colleagues at the university where I’d be teaching were tossing about the acronym ‘IBM,’ as if it were a bromide all their ills of living in a new, different cultural environment. Besides denoting the acronym of the behemoth, … Continued
By Emiliya Strahilova/Arab America Contributing Writer What would Egypt be without Gamal Abdel Nasser? This year marks the centenary of his birth and we look back at history to determine the legacy the prominent politician left behind. Nasser will be remembered with the fundamental irreversible innovations he introduced to his country, such as the nationalization … Continued
SOURCE: EGYPT INDEPENDENT Egyptian universities clenched nine slots out of a total of 32 of the top universities in the Arab world in 2018, conducted by the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings, yet no Egyptian university made it into the top five on the list. Beni Suef University was the highest-ranked Egyptian university on the list, … Continued
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