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By-BBC
Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith. 2009-10-05 23:00:55
By Mohammad Shawky-Almasry Alyoum
For months, rumors of major real-estate acquisitions in Cairo's downtown district have been rife, raising fears that the city center -- long renowned for its hustle, bustle and local color -- 2009-10-04 23:01:35
By-The Egyptian Gazette
AFTER winning their fight for recognising their religion in official documents and on identification cards (IDs), Baha'is, a minority in Egypt, are now seeking the recognition of theirmarriagecontracts, 2009-10-04 23:01:35
By-Middle East News Agency
President Mubarak called on Israel to reconsider its policies and the way it treats Palestinians and Arabs in general and cited the Egyptian-Israel peace treaty as an inspiration for such 2009-10-03 23:01:18
By-The Egyptian Gazette
"Look, that's where the swine flu is going to come from," said a weary Marzouka Beshir, pointing to a pile of rubbish rotting under the blazing sun in Imbaba, a working class neighbourhood in Cairo. 2009-10-03 23:01:18
By-The Egyptian Gazette
LONDON - Egypt yesterday signed an anti-piracy memorandum in London, insisting defence of the crucial Red Sea waterway was the "primary responsi- bility" of littoral states, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. 2009-10-03 23:01:18
By-Walaa Nabil-Almasry Alyoum
Ahmed Marwan, grandson of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, said he is "certain" that his father, famous political personality Ashraf Marwan, was killed two years ago in his London 2009-09-30 23:10:57
By-The Egyptian Gazette
KAMPALA (AFP) - Egypt's Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation Nasr Eddin Allam denied claims that the Egyptian Government was a roadblock to talks aimed at renegotiating colonial agreements over 2009-09-30 23:10:57
By-The Egyptian Gazette
AN Egyptian private equity firm is invest-ing in 500,000 feddans (210,000 hectares) of farmland in Sudan, an executive of the company said yesterday. 2009-09-29 23:01:06
By-Muhammad Azouz-Hisham Omar
Drivers for the Public Transport Authority are threatening to strike on 3 October. They say the government has failed to follow through on promises made during the negotiations that ended a two-day strike 2009-09-29 23:01:06
By-The Egyptian Gazette
In an unprecedented ruling, a Cairo court of appeal Sunday ordered Israel to pay $10 million in compensation to heirs of an Egyptian soldier killed by Israeli tank fire on the Egypt-Israel border five 2009-09-28 23:02:12
By-Magdi Abdelhadi-BBC
A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty. |
