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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
I took the pic above Tuesday in Port Said, as the Canal Ropes Company strikers were about to break their Ramadan fast at sunset. The worker in the ground reaching with his hand to take the dates is a Coptic worker, named Labib Guergiss (Also seen in the pic below). Virtually all workers I meet during [...]
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Mohamed Anwar, the president of the Union Committee at the Canal Company for Portrs and Large Projects, said that Navy Marshall Fadel, the head of the Suez Canal Company, will meet with representatives of workers from Ismailiya and Port Said on Sunday afternoon to discuss the implementation of the verbal promises the strikers received from [...]
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Photos of the Suez Canal workers’ protests in Ismailiya and Port Said, one day before the suspension of the industrial action under pressures from State Security police, coupled with concessions from the management…
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Portraits of Suez Canal workers in Ismailiya’s Canal Company for Ports and Large Projects, and in Port Said’s Canal Ropes Company…
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port said it was stopping all operations Sunday morning, including supplying refineries from onshore storage caverns, in order to evacuate employees Sunday afternoon ahead of Hurricane Gustav, a spokeswoman said.
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My Right Word (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
'Voice of Peace' Founder Abie Nathan Dead at 81 In 1966 he flew his single-engine plane called "Shalom One" from Tel Aviv to Port Said, Egypt, where he was arrested and sent back to Israel. The flight made world headlines and a few weeks later he carried his campaign to Europe, the United States and even the Soviet Union. That flight was in February. In April, he arrived in New York and we greeted...
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The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port said it resumed offshore operations Tuesday morning with the first tanker moving to moor at the Gulf of Mexico offloading platform since Tropical Storm Edouard swept over the area Monday....
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Thompson Ahern E-News (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
(Tom Peters — Chronicle Herald) Declining container cargo at the Port of Halifax has prompted CN to cut back on the number of trains calling the Port of Halifax. The lone rail operator into the port said Friday it will only have one train a day serving Halifax instead of two. CN spokeswoman Julie Senecal said the decision takes effect immediately. “CN is eliminating one train in both directions between...
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Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
EGYPT: Exams and suicide The school exam season in Egypt has turned to scenes of suicide and privilege. Worried that he bombed his math final, 16-year-old Hassan Mohamed Youssry recently hanged himself in Cairo. Mirhan Hany Salem, 18, jumped from a sixth-floor balcony in Port Said the morning she was to take her mechanics exam. Both [...]
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Another pic from the Family Album… My dad, standing to the left, with his youngest brother Mostafa, in Port Said, August 1965. Mostafa was to take photography professionally from the beginning of the 1980s, and opened with the help of my dad “Studio el-Hamalawy” in Tanta. Mostafa passed away in 2006…
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
According to ANHRI and the "Mosawah" Association for Human Rights, on 9 June 2008 the Azzohour Court of Port Said is expected to begin reviewing a unique case filed by Trust Chemicals Inc. against blogger Tamer Mabrouk. Tamer Mabrouk is the owner of "The Truth Blog", http://elhakika.blogspot.com
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FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, the artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized...
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Michael Tyler (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
KML 31.263 32.314 Or port Sa id as it is pronounced. Sports the Mediterranean entrance to the world most lucrative stretch of water. The Suez canal. Port Said is supported by a mixture of naval tradition and cruise ships which stop off. Part of my journey is made along the canal which offered better views of the massive ships than I was expecting in Port Said. Suez Canal Hotels After some time travelling...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
A record number of cruise ships are set to sail into Dublin this year pouring tens of millions of euro into the economy, Dublin Port said today.
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they must need bears (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Progress notes for 7 March 2008 Chill: New words: 2076 (Don't get excited. 776 of those are actual narrative. The rest were accomplished by pasting in big chunks of the Talmud, Wikipedia, Thomas Hobbes, and the KJV. However, since much of that will be epigraph, it counts as wordcount. But I know what happens next, and tomorrow and Sunday and Monday and Tuesday I really need to have Focus.) Total words:...
