Date of source: Saturday, October 29, 2011
The murder of the student Ayman Nabīl Labīb at the hands of his classmates at Mallawī High School after a fight with the latter during break time has raised many question marks.
Have our schools turned into enclaves for thuggery? Has thuggery, which has recently become one of the distinctive...
Date of source: Sunday, September 18, 2011
'Alā' 'Uraybī presents the point of view of Dr. Hilmī, University Professor in Tanta, when he defended Islamizing the university and running it by Islamists as the majority of students are Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Minister of Education Ahmad Jamāl al-Dīn Mūsá and British ambassador to Egypt James Watt agreed that Britain will be providing technical support for the Egyptian Professional Academy of Teachers, and a school for talented students in science and mathematics.
Mūsá also praised the British Council...
Date of source: Friday, September 9, 2011
Mansūr al-'Īsawī, the Minister of Interior has decided to accept an allocated proportion of entrants from the Sinai into the Police Academy this year. It is the first time for this to happen, and it hopes to show recognition from the Ministry regarding the role of Sinai's bedouin national history,...
Date of source: Sunday, August 28, 2011
Egyptians against Discrimination, an advocacy group that fights discrimination among Egyptian citizens on any basis, has issued a statement that expresses solidarity with the Coptic student Bishūy Zāri' 'Abd al-Hanūn.
Bishūy is a student at South Valley University, whose Dean and Deputy Dean...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
In this symposium held by Sabāh al-Kayr magazine with Dr. Hānī Hilāl, Minister of Higher Education, he talked about the crisis of scientific research in Egypt, the open education, preventing female students in niqāb (all-face veil) from joining the girls' hostels or taking exams and raising the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Universities across Egypt have seen angry students and rebellious professors protesting on campus, threatening to disband only when pro-Mubārak professors and teachers are gone.
The so-called university battle is one of a series of upheavals in the wake of the revolution. It started in Cairo...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A few days after returning to classes for the second semester, students at Egypt's public universities have started massive protests against the administrators [In the headline by 'Sir' they mean the administrators of the universities] of their institutions, demanding they be sacked for being part...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2010
The author Yūsuf Zīdān recently revealed that, after having been translated into Anatolian, his controversial book “‘Azāzīl” has become the second best-selling book in Turkey. He also revealed that his new book “al-Nabatī” is currently the best-selling book in Egypt and that the publishing house...