Latest Egypt Stories
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomes the release of Ilan Grapel, who had been held in an Egyptian jail since mid-June. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "We are relieved to see this young American-Israeli man safe, sound and free," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "While we deeply regret the circumstances that initially led to his arrest on false charges, we are pleased that Egypt and Israel were able to work together to find a...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A major Egyptian American community conference entitled "Egypt the Revolution Conference -The Road to Democracy and Economic Development" will be held October 21 through October 23, 2011 in Washington D. C. at the Crystal Gateway Marriot in Arlington, Virginia. The three day conference, hosted by the Egyptian American community, will bring together Egyptian and American leaders to discuss the political and economic situation in Egypt...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity condemns the attack by the Egyptian Armed Forces against the peaceful demonstration by the Coptic community in front of the State TV headquarters at Maspero, Cairo on Sunday, October 9, 2011. The demonstration was a peaceful protest of the recent burning of a church in Aswan, southern Egypt. The military forces' unprovoked aggression left 27 dead and over 300 persons wounded. Military Security officers and soldiers...
Texas debut for landmark exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, with more than 100 objects from the tomb of King Tut and other legendary ancient sites HOUSTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, the acclaimed King Tut exhibition featuring more than 100 ancient artifacts, is now open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) through April 15, 2012. Visitors have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 15 years ago, Viking River Cruises was established with four Russian river cruise vessels and a company name to honor the Vikings that first traveled by longship to explore Russia's waterways. Since then, the company has grown to become the world's leading river cruise line, offering passengers the opportunity to intimately experience destinations across Europe, Asia and Egypt like no other style of travel. As Viking River Cruises prepares to...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coptic Solidarity warned today against the escalation of ugly hate speech and barbaric violence targeting the Copts of Egypt. The indifference of the ruling Junta and the current government is inexcusable, arguably complicit, and therefore forcibly condemnable. The Copts are the indigenous Christians of Egypt. They amount to 12-15% of the population, or about ten million. A surge of preposterous "debates" and proclamations is taking over...
The media may portray text messaging and social networks as powerful new weapons for freedom fighters, but these new communication tools may not be as uniformly beneficial or as robust as suggested, according to Penn State researchers. People have used new information communication technologies, such as Twitter, Facebook and text messaging, both as tools for freedom and to repress in recent civil strife in Egypt and Kenya, said Brandie Martin, graduate student in mass communications....
HOUSTON, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today reported results from two new wells in Egypt's Western Desert that signal continued drilling success in the Faghur Basin and on concessions acquired in 2010. A production test of the Cretaceous Alam El Buieb (AEB) sand in the Tayim South 1-X well in the Faghur Basin flowed at a rate of 8,196 barrels of oil per day.The Lower Bahariya formation in the AG-90 development well in the Abu Gharadig Field, which...
By using a supercomputer to analyze news stories, a University of Illinois researcher believes that he can predict major upcoming global events, according to various news and wire reports. Writing in the journal First Monday on September 5, Kalev Leetaru, the Assistant Director for Text and Digital Media Analytics at the school's Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, writes, "Pooling together the global tone of all news mentions of a country over time...
ROMFORD, England, August 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- -The increase of hotel occupancy in Sharm el Sheikh shows that holidays to this Egyptian resort have become much more popular, say Beat The Brochure- Beat The Brochure, an online travel company, say that levels of occupancy in the resort of Sharm el Sheikh show that the resort is proving increasingly popular with tourists. The holiday provider say that over the last few months they have seen a huge increase in the number...
Latest Egypt Reference Libraries
The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius), also known as the Arabian camel, is a completely domesticated species that appears on the IUCN Red List with a conservation status of “Domesticated”. It is thought that when wild, its native range was mainly in the Arabian Peninsula. It can now be found in South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The only dromedary camels that display wild behaviors are the population of feral camels in Australia, which were introduced in 1840. It prefers a...
The Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus), is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family of birds. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Western Sahara.
The Egyptian Mau is the only naturally spotted breed of domesticated cat; its spots are not only on the coat, but on the skin of the cat as well. The Mau is similar to the Ocicat and the Bengal, but the Ocicat's spots were bred-in, and the Bengal is much larger than the Egyptian Mau. The Mau is a medium sized shorthair breed. Its body is compact much like the Burmese and slim like a Siamese. The Mau has a muscular body with its hind legs longer than the front, which gives the Mau the...
The jungle cat (Felis chaus), also called the swamp lynx (although not related to the lynxes), is a small cat with a rather short tail. Dependent on the subspecies the color of the fur is yellowish-grey to reddish-brown. While vertical bars are visible on the fur of kittens, these bars disappear in adult cats. Due to the pointed ears and the long legs this cat resembles a small lynx. This cat is distributed over Egypt, West Asia, India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. It inhabits various...
