Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy (Studies in Philo of Alexandria)
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Egyptian Ibn Al Dunya, who writes at Fustat, praises a new Global Voices Online project - Threatened Voices, which tracks the suppression of online free speech.
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
But, what happens when they want to go back to the Netherlands... Adel, his wife and five young children live above his car repair shop on a busy thoroughfare between Cairo and the Nile delta. On a recent Friday, with no school, the children were bored. They hung around the shop because playing outside was not an option, with the traffic out front and a railway out the back. Until a year ago Adel and...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Max Strasser, a journalist living in Cairo, wrote his thoughts on government plans to sync the call to prayer in every Cairo mosque to a radio broadcast.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Egypt's Amr Shabana won a fourth World Open title on Saturday defeating compatriot and defending champion Ramy Ashour 11-8, 11-5, 11-5. An angry Ashour was in tears at the end as his countryman equalled the achievement of Geoff Hunt, the great Australian, win winning four world crowns. Only Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan, the legendary Pakistanis who dominated the sport in the 1980s and early 1990s,...
The Arabist (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have a piece in The Review about the best-selling (and soon to be translated, and soon to be a soap opera), blog-based book عايزة اتجوز (I Want to Get Married). I also discuss some recent, related instances of young Egyptian women airing their problems with marriage, and divorce, online. And you can check out [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's 4 a.m. and I wake up on a beach on the Sinai Peninsula of eastern Egypt. The moon has set and the mountains of Saudi Arabia just 18 km away across the Gulf of Aqaba are silhouetted against the stars. The camel I rode here is sleeping nearby, and it is still so warm even in late October that a single blanket is all I need. If this is doing my bit for ecological tourism, I'm sold. I'm here on vacation,...
Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — China's premier stressed Saturday that his country's push to boost alr...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can it really be that high??? The Social Security Bank (SVB), the organisation that implements national insurance schemes in the Netherlands, will send an inspection team to Egypt next month to check whether the child support received by parents of Egyptian-Dutch kids is legitimate. The quasi non-governmental organisation reported 124 Egyptian-Dutch kids receive double benefits because they are studying...
Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Times Egypt extends borders opening before Gaza pilgrims Xinhua GAZA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Egypt kept its borders open to allow travel of Gazans seeking pilgrimage in Mecca, officials said on Saturday. Early on Thursday, 800 Palestinians have managed to travel through Rafah border crossing, ... Stop seeking compromise with Israel: Hamas leader Reuters Israeli concern over Abbas move BBC News...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
DUBAI: China has begun a new round of engagement with West Asia and Africa with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao embarking on a visit to Egypt where he will also participate in a key meeting of the China-Africa cooperation forum. In his ...
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad.
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today I was signed up to donate blood and I was at the church about 5 minutes early. I read through the instructions; I told the sign-in lady that I had had a long 20 minute conversation with someone at the 800 number about my trip in March--Greece, Turkey, Israel and Egypt. I was told then (2 weeks ago), that all the cities were cleared for malaria, and I should just report the conversation. She took...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key (Jonathan Yeomans) The cemetery at Saqqara is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. Over six kilometres long, it boasts thousands of underground burial sites, as well as the six-step Djoser pyramid – Egypt’s oldest pyramid. The ruins at Saqqara have long attracted the interest of explorers, grave-robbers and local people. Travellers first reported evidence...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key The Desert Fathers of ancient Egypt were some of the world's first hermits. Despite the modern ideal of the hermit, these didn't live in total isolation. However, they did live a sparse, hard life in the country's early Christian monasteries. If women chose to enter their sphere, they would do so dressed as men. Who were these scholastic men of the desert, and how did their form of worship...
Talk Islam (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hijabis banned from Egyptian state TV: “It is part of our society’s culture to show hair.” Female presenters will no longer appear on Egypt’s state television channel wearing the Muslim veil, according to the head of the public station, al-Masriya. Osama al-Sheikh said: “You will not see any veiled female TV presenters on air on the [...] a
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