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March 10 - Sinai Insurgency: A suicide bomber kills one person and injures 24 in an attack on a police station in the Sinai Peninsula. [11] March 13–15 - The launch of the Egypt Economic Development Conference at the Red Sea City of Sharm el-Sheikh, with over 2,000 delegates from 112 different countries in Egypt to attend the conference. [12]
On December 29, 2013, three journalists who were working for the Qatari-based international news channel Al Jazeera English, Australian Peter Greste, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, were taken into custody by Egyptian security forces at the Marriott Hotel in Cairo following a raid at their room, which was used for the news channel's remote studio.
Business and economics Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announces the plan to donate 99 percent of the company stock he and his wife Priscilla Chan own over their lifetimes, shares today worth about $45 billion, to "advance human potential and promote equality for all children." (The Washington Post) Disasters and accident Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 Indonesia releases a report into ...
According to Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a record-breaking 14.9 million tourists visited Egypt in 2023, a number that could be surpassed this year.
In the second phase, elections took place from 21 November to 2 December 2015 in the remaining nine governorates of the Central Delta and East Delta regions, namely the governorates of Cairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Monufia, Gharbia, Kafr el-Sheikh, Sharqia, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai, and South Sinai.
Al Tahrir was an 18-page daily. [1] In July 2011, Ibrahim Mansour, the executive editor of the daily, argued that it primarily targets young readers, who "lost faith in the print media because it served the regime."
Egypt Today was first published in 1979. [2] It covers Egyptian current affairs and some international news. The magazine is published by IBA media, which also publishes Business Today Egypt, another monthly magazine. [3] [4] Both magazines are based in Cairo. [3]
Professor Springborg was himself accused of being a "conspirator against Egypt’s stability" on 7 December 2011 Arabic-language edition of Al-Masry al-Youm. The self-censorship episode prompted the staff of Egypt Independent to write that "even after 25 January, self-censorship still plagues Egyptian media. As an Egyptian newspaper, we, too ...