http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/egypt/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:27:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050569/posts Egypt has banned a book by a British journalist about Egyptian politics and society entitled "Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution," the author said on Wednesday. "According to my publisher, The American University in Cairo bookstore ordered 50 copies of Inside Egypt a few days ago, only to cancel the order a few hours later after being informed by Egyptian government censors that the book is banned in Egypt," John R. Bradley said. The book's New York-based publishers Palgrave Macmillan confirmed the book had been banned in Egypt. The book "examines the junctions... Middle East Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050569/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:27:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050511/posts Egypt Shuts Iranian TV Station Office in Cairo July 24, 2008 Reuters Cynthia Johnston CAIRO -- Egypt, irritated with Iran over a film on the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, shut down the Cairo offices of an Iranian television station that it said was not properly licensed, security sources said on Thursday. The sources said police closed the offices of Iran's state-owned Arabic Al-Alam television on Tuesday because it did not have a broadcasting licence, and confiscated computers and photo equipment. They gave no further explanation for the move. But the closure came weeks after Egypt summoned the head of... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050511/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts I was privileged this week to preview, before its release to the public, what may well prove to be a masterpiece of the documentary film-making art—a new look at the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt in the light of contemporary archeology and politics in the Middle East. Filmmaker Tim Mahoney´s "The Exodus Conspiracy",[1] due to be released within a few months, seeks to demonstrate the historical accuracy of the Biblical narrative of the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt on the basis of recent archaeological discoveries and geographic explorations. A secondary thesis of the film is... American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047169/posts CAIRO: Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed yesterday. The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. “Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis,” said the report by the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights. Egyptian women... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047169/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:23:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047083/posts Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and most say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey shows. The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. "Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis," said the report by the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights. Egyptian women and female visitors... News.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047083/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:37:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043814/posts Egypt crackdown on African migrants hits Eritreans Thu 26 Jun 2008, 11:14 GMT By Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, June 26 (Reuters) - When 17 Eritrean migrants crept down from a hillside to a central Egypt highway, after slipping undetected into the most populous Arab country, security forces quickly swept in to pick them up. The Eritreans, including a baby whose mother died on her journey to Egypt, were snared in a growing Egyptian crackdown on African migrants that has seen up to 1,000 Eritrean asylum seekers deported since June 11 despite U.N. objections. ... he Eritreans include Pentecostal Christians fleeing religious... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043814/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:28:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2043276/posts Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Saturday. The agency said that the discovery, made by a team from the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, could be dated back to the Old Kingdom (3,000 B.C.) -- the golden age of pyramid building in ancient times. The team "has found what could be a royal complex of 13 tombs of different shapes and sizes that could have belonged to high officials from that period or people who contributed... Ya-hoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2043276/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:01:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042719/posts CAIRO: On July 7, 2005, four British Muslims blew themselves up on the London public transport system. Fifty-two commuters, Muslims included, were tragically killed. Two years later, and the fundamental question of why it was that four, seemingly middle class, educated young men took their own lives and others’, remains largely unanswered. For Muslims on the other side of the globe, it would confirm perceptions that their Western brethren were subject to victimization and scapegoat-ism: so marginalized from their “host” society they were prepared to murder fellow citizens. But for the reality for the majority of UK’s Muslims, this couldn’t... Daily News Egypt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042719/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:11:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042351/posts An Egyptian army officer was killed during a brief exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers early Monday morning, Israel’s Army Radio reported. The initial findings of a joint Israeli-Egyptian investigation into the incident indicate that an Egyptian army patrol inadvertently crossed the unmarked border into Israeli territory while chasing Bedouin smugglers. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042351/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:33:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042080/posts Egypt summoned a senior Iranian diplomat in Cairo on Monday over an Iranian film on the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official and state media said. Egypt's state news agency MENA said Cairo called in the head of the Iranian interests office in Cairo over the film, which upset Egyptian sensibilities. But MENA gave few details of the film's content. Mainly Sunni Muslim Egypt and Shi'ite Iran have not had full diplomatic relations since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, when Iran cut ties after Sadat hosted the deposed pro-Western Shah in Cairo. Iran said in January... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042080/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:38:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042067/posts Under pressure from fundamentalist forms of Islam and bursts of sectarian violence, the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries, members of both communities say. Attacks this summer on monks and shopkeepers belonging to Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, and scattered clashes between Muslims and Christians, have compelled many of Egypt's estimated 6 million to 8 million Copts to isolate themselves in a nation with more than 70 million Muslims. To a degree, the separation will stand as the legacy... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042067/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042036/posts Advocates of even mild feminism were thin on the ground in 19th-century Egypt. But in 1899, the Cairo newspapers announced the appearance of at least one citizen who held outlandishly modern opinions on the subject. His much-reviled book, The Liberation of Women, created a controversy that remains alive today in certain corners of Islam. The heretic in question, Qasim Amin (1863-1908), a young judge from a prominent family, was hard to ignore. He was well connected among Egyptian intellectuals and a founder of Cairo University. He based his argument on patriotism. As a nationalist, he insisted that the independent Egypt... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042036/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:25:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040455/posts It was 2000 and I was at a dinner party in Cairo. I was sitting with *Malak, a belly dancer, and we were eyeing up a young woman who had large oval eyes thickly lined with black kohl and a wide mouth painted salmon. It was the first time Malak and I had seen her at Haroun’s house. After she’d been introduced around to the group of friends—dancers, actresses, businessmen, and me, an American anthropologist—that met every Thursday night for drinks and dinner, Malak looked her up and down skeptically, and then she said to me in a low voice,... American Sexuality Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040455/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:16:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2038956/posts "These coffins were found in the tombs of senior officials of the 18th and 19th dynasties," near Saqqara, Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Thursday. "Some coloured unopened coffins dating back to the sixth century BC were found as well as some coffins dating back to the time of Ramses II," who ruled from 1279 to 1213 BC, he said... The Saqqara burial grounds which date back to 2,700 BC and are dominated by the massive bulk of King Zoser's step pyramid -- the first ever built -- were in continuous use until the... Google/AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2038956/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038785/posts Even though Dhimmi Watch admirably noted the recent attack on the Abu Fana Coptic monastery in Egypt, after just watching a graphic video detailing the affair on the Arabic satellite program Hiwar al-Haq—which makes clear that the raid (ghazwa) was far from being motivated by a “land dispute,” as the Egyptian authorities insist—I figured I’d do a little translating and relaying, thereby giving readers more perspective on the matter: For starters, Father Antonias, who was there, said that many “disparaging” words were hurled against Christianity by the Muslim assailants during their rampage, which, incidentally, included the destruction of altars and... Dhimmi Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038785/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038066/posts The Egyptian bureau of al-Hurra, an Arabic-language television network financed by the U.S. government, boasts a spectacular view of the Nile River and the capital's bustling streets. But inside, all is quiet. The bureau's satellite link was unplugged with little explanation a few weeks ago by a local company, making it impossible to broadcast live. Since then, staffers have had to use a studio controlled by the Egyptian secret police, who have warned guests not to say anything controversial on the air. Al-Hurra -- "The Free One" in Arabic -- is the centerpiece of a U.S. government campaign to spread... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038066/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037874/posts EL-ARISH, Egypt, (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot and killed two African migrants, including a seven-year-old Sudanese girl, as they tried to cross the border into Israel on Saturday, security and hospital sources said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the security sources said an Egyptian patrol opened fire on the migrants to stop them getting across the border south of the Rafah crossing. They added that seven other African migrants had been detained, including the dead child's mother. Their deaths bring to 16 the number of migrants killed at the border this year. Hospital sources said the other victim was an... EL-ARISH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037874/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036954/posts Barely a few weeks after the attacks on the Abu Fana monastery in El-Menya, Coptic homes and businesses in the village of Al Nazla, in the Fayoum province south of Cairo were attacked by their Muslim neighbors. The attackers shouted “Allah Akbar” and “Kill the infidels” as they hurled stones at their Christian neighbors’ homes. The attackers took to the streets on June 19, 2008 after the disappearance of Dalia Makram, a Christian convert to Islam. Dalia, or Demiana as she was known before her conversion to Islam, converted to Islam in order to marry Hamada Sayed Zaki about two... The Free Copts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036954/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036460/posts Muslim militants are crucifying children to terrorize their Christian parents into fleeing Iraq, a parliamentary committee studying the persecution of religious minorities heard yesterday. Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents. One infant was snatched, decapitated, burned and left on his mother's doorstep, the committee was told. Filham Isaac, speaking for the Nineveh Advocacy Committee, told the human rights committee that Iraqi Christian churches were bombed, clergy murdered and unveiled Iraqi women raped or... The Ottawa Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036460/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:10:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036116/posts The war against free speech is advancing rapidly: Associated Press reported Thursday that “Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council.” Council President Doru-Romulus Costea explained that religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” Henceforth only religious scholars would be permitted to broach them. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036116/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035781/posts Just everyone is concerned with Iran’s rising influence in the Middle East. Israel, the United States, Egypt, and Russia protest what they see as Iranian incursion on their turf. Russia and America are in the double binge: Iran acts both in the Middle East and in their backyards, Central Asia and Venezuela, respectively. For Egypt, rising Iran creates a major domestic threat: dormant Shiite communities in Egypt and Shiite proselytes sponsored by Iran are inherently disloyal to Egypt’s secular Sunni regime. Russia sees Iran as wooing away its traditional clients: Syrians and Palestinians. France protests Iran taking Lebanon and Syria... Samson Blinded http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035781/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:02:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034387/posts France's Association of Copts plans to hold a demonstration on Sunday against what it calls "repeated and ferocious" attacks against members of the Coptic Christian minority in Egypt. "The beating up of Coptic citizens are occurring daily in Egypt," the association said, adding that these attacks have been going on for years. The association said it hoped Sunday's protest would raise awareness in France and other countries about the plight of Egypt's Coptic minority. The association cited an incident on 31 May in which 60 armed Muslims allegedly attacked a Coptic monastery in Abufana assaulting dozens of monks and setting... Adnkronos International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034387/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034082/posts Coils of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found in Cave Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News June 20, 2008 -- The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave at the Red Sea coast, according to preliminary study results presented at the recent congress of Egyptologists in Rhodes. Discovered three years ago by archaeologists Rodolfo Fattovich of the Oriental Studies University of Naples and Kathryn Bard of Boston University, the ropes offer an unprecedented look at seafaring activities in ancient Egypt. "No ropes on this scale and this old have been... Discovery Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034082/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:50:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033945/posts On New Year's Day, Patricia Said stood at the door of a small house in a Hispanic neighborhood of Lewisville, pleading with her daughter Amina to come home. The girl cried and clung to her boyfriend, Eddie, a college student who lived in the house with his mother and sister. For a week, Amina, an 18-year-old senior at Lewisville High School, had been living a nightmare. Her father, Yaser Said, had pulled a gun on Christmas Eve and threatened to kill her because of her relationship with Eddie. Dallas Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033945/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:05:40 GMT