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Sep 23 2009
This summer, the government killed all the pigs and we all made fun of it. Now the streets are awash with garbage in part (but not only) because the pigs are no longer eating it, and we still don’t know what the longer-term impact on the zabaleen...
Sep 19 2009
Many who grew up in Cairo can doubtless remember the billboards that used to dot the streets proclaiming that “Cairo is a clean city”, and Giza the same. However true — or not — the message, the boards were spotted easily and...
Sep 13 2009
The ministries of higher education and health plan to shut down universities during January and February in the event that those months see increased rates of swine-flu infection, as the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health are...
Sep 13 2009
Around 7,000 Coptic Christians gathered at the Father Kyrillos church on the outskirts of Cairo to pray for an end to “discriminaton” during the celebration of the Egyptian Coptic New Year this weekend.
Sep 13 2009
The Egyptian authorities must rein in their border guards, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a day after four migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were shot dead near the Israeli border.
Sep 12 2009
Travis Randall the blogger. Travis Randall the activist. Travis Randall the … American?
Sep 11 2009
The Egyptian interior ministry said today that it was within their right to fine and arrest those citizens who publicly break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan. According to local reports from the southern Egyptian city, police have targeted...
Sep 10 2009
According to some local newspapers, and now an increasing number of independent news and blog sites, Egyptian police has to-date arrested 155 non-fasters, who were caught eating/smoking/drinking. Ramadan’s fasting hours in Egypt go from Sunrise...
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Sep 4 2009
An American working in Egypt was held over night at Cairo International Airport and then deported from the country without being given any reason, he told the Associated Press Thursday.
Sep 4 2009
Lately Egypt has been redefining itself for me in a few things. Driving...Driving with my poor 10 year old car in all these ditches and sewer pots and horrible road bumps and around the pedestrians and the microbuses and the crazy taxi drivers and big...
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