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Relocating Gurna residents has long been a controversial subject. But now that an estimated 70 percent of the community has been lodged in new housing, there is little point in continuing the argument over whether or not it should have happened in the first place. Instead, Luxor residents living along Sphinx Alley had best take note: They’re next in the ambitious relocation and preservation project. Do they have much to look forward to?
PERHAPS the largest crowd ever to visit the village of Gurna on Luxor’s West Bank assembled early last December to watch an over-elaborate ceremony taking place on a hill opposite the village. Local officials brought in two busloads of journalists to witness the proceedings, which began with groups of school children in Pharaonic dress performing to the beat of drums. Once the children were done, visiting mayors, governors and council heads gave speech after speech to the attentive television cameras.
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Cache Seel
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Paying in Blood |
An Islamist Stage? | Blood donations are down by as much as 90 percent in some areas in the wake of a scandal over tainted and defective blood bags
There’s nothing we like more than a juicy scandal, and 2007 kicked off with one that promises to spur public debate for the rest of the year. The
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Manal el-Jesri
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Read more | Although it insists it’s not out to create Islamic theater, the Senna Sharq troupe is making headlines for aiming to raise the “moral standards” of the Egyptian stage
Afew short days before the opening night of El-Shafra (The Code), Downtown’s Faisal Nada Theater is a beehive of activity. The scene is one o
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Noha Mohammed
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 | Censoring a Satellite?
Whether you call it a hate machine or the ultimate video blog, Al-Zawraa is under fire for airing potent images of attacks on American troops in Iraq
By Jessica Olien
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 | Free For All
With the release of Saddam Hussein’s videotaped execution on local and Arab blogs, more and more Egyptians are turning to what’s become known as “user-generated content” for breaking news
By Manal el-Jesri
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 | Murderer or Martyr?
The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on the first day of El-Eid shocked the nation
By Yasmeen El Mallah
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