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Cairo Opera House artists, employees go on strike
Date: 2013-05-29 11:35:30 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:8 - ID:130626
Hundreds of fine artists and employees of Cairo Opera House went on an open-ended sit-in in protest at a decision by the culture minister to dismiss head of the Cairo Opera Inas Abdel-Dayem. At the end of Aida Opera performance, that took ....
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Pop singer asks Moroccans to pray for Egypt
Date: 2013-05-27 13:24:58 GMT - Morocco - Culture - SN:7 - ID:127448
Egyptian Pop singer Mohamed Munir has urged the Moroccan people to pray for Egypt and Arab countries at a concert held here on Sunday. During the concert, which started at 10:30 p.m., Munir thanked the organizers of Mawazine Festival and the ....
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Egyptian scientist gets 2012 Kwame Nkrumah award
Date: 2013-05-27 13:13:53 GMT - Ethiopia - Culture - SN:3 - ID:127421
Egyptian scientist Nabil Abdel-Baset won the 2012 Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award in the field of basic sciences, technology and innovation. On the fringe of the African summit held here, the African Union honored Egyptian scientist ....
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Interior ministry denies fire broke out in Karnak Temple
Date: 2013-05-07 08:19:36 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:3 - ID:96823
A senior interior ministry official on Monday denied reports fanned by some news websites that a fire erupted in Karnak Temple in Luxor. A limited fire broke out in the grass of an adjacent garden, 200 meters away from the ....
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'Egyptian Museum completely secured'- minister
Date: 2013-04-20 12:17:00 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:4 - ID:72888
State Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim stressed Friday that the Egyptian Museum is 'completely secured', and sustained no damage in the nearby running clashes in Abdel Monem Riyad Square. Ibrahim said he is on continuous contact ....
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Prosection orders arrest of Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting President Morsi
Date: 2013-03-30 15:31:14 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:15 - ID:41044
The Public Prosecution ordered on Saturday the arrest of Bassem Youssef, a satirist and host of a CBC program (El Bernameg), to investigate the reports presented against him implying charges of insulting President Mohammad Morsi and contempt of ....
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Egyptian-Iraqi rapprochement much need at this critical time - minister
Date: 2013-03-24 11:47:35 GMT - Iraq - Culture - SN:8 - ID:31691
Egypt's culture minister stressed that an Egyptian-Iraqi rapprochement is much needed at this critical time in the history of the Arab democratic transition. "In the past, when Cairo and Bahdad were close, all Arab cultural ....
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Luxor Film Festival to boost ties with Africa - governor
Date: 2013-03-21 12:16:40 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:6 - ID:27307
Egypt-Africa Luxor Film Festival to boost ties with Africa - governor LUXOR, Egypt, (MENA) - Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad said the Luxor African Film Festival will boost Egypt's ties with African counties especially the Nile ....
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Kuwait refuses to teach Egyptian curriculum in private schools
Date: 2013-03-20 11:57:57 GMT - Kuwait - Culture - SN:5 - ID:25369
Kuwaiti Cabinet's Fatwa and Legislation Department turned down a request by the Egyptian embassy to approve teaching Egyptian curriculum in private schools in the oil-rich emirate, saying a legislative amendment to the private education system is a ....
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16 statues discovered in Luxor's Temple of Amenhotep III
Date: 2013-03-11 15:07:28 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:11 - ID:11039
As many as 14 statues from black granite were discovered by a German archeological team, while excavating at the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III on the West Bank in Luxor , announced State Minister of Antiquities Mohamed ....
