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In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
Seven years ago, Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin attacked Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid and now he finds himself accused because of his book "My Father Adam". Al-Midan asked him about the reality of his criticism of the Ministry of Endowments, the criticism of Dr. Beltagi about his book "My Father Adam", and...
Sub-title: Removing the eagle on the Egyptian flag and putting two crossed swords instead Cairo University has witnessed a strong crisis due to the incidents that took place in Dar Al-Uloum faculty. A group of students from the faculty removed the eagle of the Egyptian flag and put two crossed...
This article deals with the struggle between those students who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and those who don’t at the Faculty of Humanities at Cairo University, and the recent attack on the drama team by Muslim Brotherhood students.
The birds of darkness have returned to flap their wings once again, in an attempt to stop the wheel of progress in this country [of Egypt]; the occasion is the draft of the new Personal Status Law, that tries to lift some burdens off the Egyptian woman. Last week was the rage week of extremists,...
The student union elections held on 2 November have elicited little more than a yawn, if indeed they were noticed at all. The glory days of campus politics have long since passed, or so it would seem.
Heated student elections were held last week in all the Egyptian universities. While some students played the role of activists, others took the role of spectators. Islamist students, who call themselves Gama’at el-Islamiya, and non-Islamists fought each other in the elections.
"The artifacts and monuments used by Egypt’s Jews are part of our national heritage. They tell the story of the Jewish community in Egypt over the centuries." This is how Mohsen Abdel-Rahman Rabi’, director of the Department of Jewish Antiquities (DJA) at the Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Eddin accused an Islamic group of spreading rumors about the Ministry of Education perverting the Holy Hadiths [the Islamic traditions concerning the Prophet Mohammed and other prophets] in the educational syllabuses, deleting some of the Qur’anic verses, and [by the ministry...
Islamist students at the Faculty of Dar Al-Aloum at Cairo University reacted violently when the faculty organized a mixed-sex student outing to Al-Agamy in Alexandria. A female student died on the trip in a tragic accident. Islamist students insisted that the Dar Al-Aloum Faculty was Islamic and...

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