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Egypt to replace finance minister in reshuffle - cabinet source
ReutersCAIRO, May 7 (Reuters) - Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil will remove Finance Minister Al-Mursi Al-Sayed Hegazy in a reshuffle expected to be completed later on Tuesday, a cabinet source said. Hegazy is expected to be replaced by Fayyad Abdel Moneim,... -
Egypt's revolution from a tourist's perspective
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country as a dictator for three decades, was deposed on February 11, 2011. The revolution here is barely two years old, and any visitor to Cairo with an interest in peoples’ struggles (like me)...
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Politics, MTV (tv network), Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Islam
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Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed...Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Christian Orthodoxy, Cairo (Egypt), Mohamed Morsi, Science and Technology
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Egypt president uses tweets to convey kinder, gentler side
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi, at least for the moment, appears to be channeling his softer side. The beleaguered Egyptian leader this week withdrew criminal complaints filed by his office against journalists and began nightly chats with...Tags: Politics, Hosni Mubarak, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Journalism
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Review: 'Harvard Square' by Andre Aciman
André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's status as a graduate. As his son ricochets between hope and scorn,...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Colleges and Universities, City University of New York, Education, Judaism
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Court jails supporters of black-clad Egypt protest group
ReutersCAIRO, May 2 (Reuters) - Six men were jailed by a Cairo court on Thursday in the first ruling against a little-known group opposed to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi that the government has accused of participating in "terrorist acts". State security...Tags: Suez Canal, Cairo (Egypt), Prosecution, Globalization, Mohamed Morsi
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Thousands of Egypt's Islamists protest against state security
ReutersCAIRO, May 2 (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptian hardline Islamists marched from a mosque in a Cairo suburb on Thursday night to the state security headquarters to protest against what they said was a return to the force's pre-revolution methods. The...Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Cairo (Egypt), Mohamed Morsi, Crime, Law and Justice
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MIDEAST STOCKS - Factors to watch - May 2
ReutersDUBAI, May 2 (Reuters) - Here are factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy. INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL * GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares capped by US stock...Tags: Credit Ratings, Petroleum Industry, United Arab Emirates, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Saudi Arabia
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TABLE-India Reliance lifts LatAm oil share to 51 pct in Jan-March -trade data
ReutersNEW DELHI, May 1 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries, owner of the world's biggest refining complex, has raised its dependence on heavier grades from Latin America, replacing some of the Middle Eastern crude it used to purchase, tanker arrival data made...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Brazil, Mukesh Ambani, Venezuela, Australia
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DEALTALK-Gulf expansion push buoys Middle East banking M&A
Reuters* Gulf Arab banks seeking to expand regionally * Intense competition, high liquidity prompting move * Regional banks targeting assets of foreign lenders * Bankers see more deals coming out of Egypt, Turkey By Dinesh Nair and David French DUBAI, May 1...Tags: National Bank of Greece SA, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Bank of America Corp., Lebanon, Banking
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FEATURE-Youth voice hope for change in static Palestinian politics
Reuters* New TV gives glimpse of views of frustrated youth * Partisan rivalry, occupation defines moribund politics * Slim majority of youth think they can be force for change By Noah Browning RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 1 (Reuters) - Far from the children...Tags: Politics, Parliament, Fatah, West Bank, National Government
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Les Rois Hotel on Egypt's Red Sea is alcohol-free
CAIRO — Hold the martini, please. With fanfare and cheers from Islamists, the first nonalcoholic hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada has opened, a testament to a new political culture, which seeks at the very least a veneer of piety in a...Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Arts and Culture, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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