Activist Mahinour El Masry has been taken into custody and awaits trial “on charges of participating in an illegal protest against the government's transfer of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia,”the AP says. Four other activists are being tried alongside El Masry.
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Disney to screen new film Coco at first ever Arab World film festival in Tunisia
Disney to screen new film Coco at first ever Arab World film festival: The Walt Disney Company is set to screen its new 3D-animated feature Coco at its first ever film festival in the Arab world, which takes place in Tunisia from 24-26 November, Egypt Today says. Other classics, including Cinderella, Bambi, and Aladdin, will […]
On this day: 20 November
ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1945, the Nuremberg trial of Nazis began, charging twenty Nazi leaders of war crimes. Extremist insurgents attempted the Grand Mosque seizure in Saudi Arabia on this day in 1979, calling for the overthrow of the House of Saud and declaring that the Mahdi had arrived in the form […]
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 17.59 | Sell 17.69 EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 17.57 | Sell 17.67 EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.59 | Sell 17.69 EGX30 (Sunday): 13,742 (-0.8%) Turnover: EGP 681 mn (31% below the 90-day average) EGX 30 year-to-date: +11.3% THE MARKET ON SUNDAY: The EGX30 ended […]
19-21 November (Sunday-Tuesday): 11th Annual INJAZ Young Entrepreneurs Competition, Four Seasons Nile Plaza, Cairo. 01 December (Friday): Prophet’s Birthday, national holiday. 01-03 December (Friday-Sunday): RiseUp Summit, Downtown Cairo. 03-05 December (Sunday-Tuesday): Solar-Tec, Cairo International Exhibition & Convention Center. 03-05 December (Sunday-Tuesday): Electrix, Cairo International Exhibition & Convention Center. 05 December (Tuesday): Egypt’s Emirates NBD PMI […]
What we’re tracking on 19 November 2017
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on two pieces of controversial legislation today, according to Ahram Online. Chief among them: the Labor Unions Act, which has been widely criticized by independent labor unions in Egypt, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Egyptian presidential candidate and human rights lawyer Khaled Ali. Ali had said […]
AC/DC founder dead at 64
The soundtrack for this morning’s Edition: Everything AC/DC, following the death overnight of founding band member and guitarist Malcolm Young. See obits in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. We love how the faceless editors at Apple Music put it: “Their mechanized swing … is so elemental that it essentially serves as the root […]
What we’re tracking this week
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is in to Nicosia on Monday to attend a trilateral summitwith Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 20-21 November. The summit will be the fifth, following a series of meetings between the heads of state that began in November 2014.
El Sisi’s warnings to Ethiopia top conversation on the airwaves
Topping the conversation on the airwaves last night was President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s sharp warning to Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) after that country, along with Sudan, failed to approve a study on its potential effects. Surprisingly, the comments led to an interesting discussion on the perils of rice cultivation. Background: […]