3/18/2013

#egypt #Giza Pyramids celebrate #St.Patrick’s Day

#Giza Pyramids celebrate #St.Patrick’s Day

The Embassy of Ireland in Cairo celebrated the St. Patrick's Day , the National Day of Ireland last Thursday in a very creative way. The pyramids and Sphinx turned green that night :)
Of course our tourism board and our media were busy in something else as usual.

3/16/2013

أول تسونامي في العالم وقع في #مصر قبل 35 قرناً


أول تسونامي في العالم وقع في مصر قبل 35 قرناً

اكتشاف أثري هام في شبه جزيرة سيناء المصرية يلقي الضوء على ضخامة الجيش المصري القديم وشراسة المعارك التي دارت بين الدولة الفرعونية والهكسوس. كما يشير الاكتشاف إلى وقوع أول تسونامي في العالم قبل 3500 عاماً.
كشفت بعثة لوزارة الآثار المصرية عن مبان إدارية ضخمة محصنة تعود إلى عصر الهكسوس، تتكون من طابقين وعدة صالات وحجرات مبنية من الطوب اللبن بموقع تل حبوة، على بعد ثلاثة كيلومترات شرق قناة السويس بمنطقة القنطرة في محافظة شمال سيناء، حسبما صرح محمد إبراهيم وزير الآثار المصري.
وكشفت البعثة أيضاً عن بقايا مخلفات بركانية لقطع من بركان سان تورينى في البحر المتوسط، الذي أحدث أول تسونامى في العالم القديم منذ ما يقرب من حوالي 3500 عام وتسبب في غرق جزء كبير من سواحل سيناء والدلتا وعدد من المدن الأثرية، منها منطقة تل حبوة المعروفة قديما بقلعة ثارو.
وأشار الوزير، في بيان تلقت وكالة الأنباء الألمانية نسخة منه السبت (16 مارس/ آذار 2013)، إلى أنه تم اكتشاف هياكل آدمية وحيوانية من عصر الهكسوس داخل تلك المبان، وأن العديد من الهياكل الآدمية وجدت مطعونه برؤوس السهام والحراب، في دليل على المعارك الحربية التي دارت في الموقع بين الجيش الفرعوني بقيادة الملك أحمس الأول والغزاة الهكسوس حتى تم طردهم من مصر.
كما أضاف الوزير في البيان أن البعثة كشفت أيضاً "عن عدد من مخازن الجيش المصري وصوامع للغلال، بعضها دائري يبلغ قطره أربعة أمتار وأخرى مستطيلة أبعادها 30 متراً، وقدرت كمية الغلال التي تحتويها بأكثر من 280 طناً، مما يشير إلى ضخامة أعداد الجيش في عصر الدولة الفرعونية الحديثة.
The remnants of an ancient theatre at the archaeological site of Pelusium, 30 km from Elkantara, northwestern Sinai, Egypt, Monday 02 April 2007. Pelusium was an important fortress along the Horus military road. This archaeological region is almost four miles long and consists of a number of sites, mostly dating back to the late Roman period. The site includes thermal baths with a water tower, the theatre and a large roman fortress in the centre. EPA/KHALID ELFIQI +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++ تنوي السلطات المصرية تحويل موقع تل حبوة إلى متحف عسكري مفتوح لتشجيع السياحة في محور قناة السويس
تأكيد لما ورد في البرديات
ولفت البيان إلى أن الموقع سيتم إعداده كمتحف مفتوح للتاريخ العسكري على مساحة ألف فدان، ضمن مشروعات تطوير محور قناة السويس سياحياً.
من جانبه، قال الدكتور محمد عبد المقصود، نائب رئيس قطاع الآثار المصرية ورئيس بعثة الحفائر بشمال سيناء، إنه كشف عن بقايا حريق ضخم للعديد من المباني التي أحرقت بالمدينة أثناء المعركة، مما يؤكد ما جاء في بردية "رايند" المحفوظة بالمتحف البريطاني، بأن ملك مصر أحمس الأول قام بالهجوم على قلعة ثارو بتل حبوة ودخل المدينة وحاصر بعد ذلك عاصمة الهكسوس أفاريس في منطقة تل الضبعة بمحافظة الشرقية، على بعد 50 كيلومتراً من تل حبوة.
وكانت قلعة ثارو مركز قيادة الجيش في عصر الدولة الفرعونية الحديثة ومقراً ملكياً لفراعنة مصر ومركزاً للقيادة العسكرية وتجميع الجيوش التى خرجت من مصر لتأمين الحدود، ولذلك أقيم بها أربع قلاع ضخمة وأسوار من الطوب اللبن وخنادق وموانع مائية ومنحدرات حول الأسوار لمنع تسلقها، وكذلك أسوار مزدوجة. وبلغت مساحة أكبر القلاع المكتشفة 300 متر في 600 متر، مدعمة بعدد كبير من الأبراج. ويتراوح سمك الأسوار ما بين ثمانية و14 متراً.

#ksa Saudi Arabia: poverty, tyranny and congestion .. and "vices under the veil"

Women participating in the Counter-Terrorism International Conference pass an armored vehicle outside the conference center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia Sunday 06 February 2005. Over 50 countries and international organizations including the United States, Syria and Iraq are participating in the 4-day international conference which will look at ways to battle terrorism around the world. EPA / MIKE NELSON + + + (c) dpa - Bildfunk + + +

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Saudi Arabia: poverty, tyranny and congestion .. and "vices under the veil"

The Saudi cleric denounced the close of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood to confiscate rights in Saudi Arabia and demanded reform, Saudi writer warned that Saudi Arabia is witnessing a time of reform and loose at the same time, and stressed the need to take advantage of the experiences of neighboring countries.
Condemned a prominent Saudi cleric of the stream near the thought of awakening the Muslim Brotherhood in the "open letter" Friday (March 15 / March 2013) confiscation of rights, calling for reform. And at the same time warned of congestion in the kingdom, which follow a conservative approach politically and religiously.
Salman wrote back in its website modeled on extracts that "people here have longings and demands and rights, and will not remain silent forever forfeited in whole or in part ... when man loses hope, you have to expect him anything."
The return to "negative feelings accumulated since the time for quite some ... if still feeling scared of people surmised them all, and if increased frequency of anger will not unhappy thing, with the rising anger lose symbols of legitimacy and political value, and become leadership, however the street."
He attributed the reasons Saudi cleric congestion to "financial and administrative corruption, unemployment, housing, poverty, poor health and education and the absence of political reform horizon", noting that "the continuation of the existing situation is impossible., But the question to track where it's heading?".
Salman returns considered that it was "necessary to release the detainees and decisiveness Jeddah إصلاحيي", in reference to the provisions, which were issued last Saturday sentenced prominent human rights activists about ten years each solve Jmeithma to lack of access to a license to carry out the business.
Authorities also arrested in 2007 a number of university professors and lawyers, in what has become known as the "cell Break Jeddah", some of the Awakening Movement. And sentenced to one of them, one of the symbols of the Umma Party of the Muslim Brotherhood to 30 years imprisonment.
Era of openness and loose
For his part, said Saudi writer Ali bin Mohammed quartet in his new book that while the era of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, is the era of reform and opening up, but there are currents in Saudi Arabia grappling in the name of religion and disparate religious glances.
Eine schwarz gekleidete Bettlerin mit einem Krückstock neben sich, kauert am Rande einer Straße in Riad, der Hauptstadt des Königreiches Saudi-Arabien, aufgenommen am 15.11.2006. Foto: Peer Grimm + + + (c) dpa - Report + + + Extreme poverty and obscene wealth and the main controversy revolves around the veil
This came in a four-book, titled "Clash of currents in Saudi Arabia." According to the book quartet that "the reality of the situation in Saudi Arabia turns the equation, with leaves Halim Hiran, scene current ... suggests that we did not consider what happened around us coups and Anfelataat, what Ajdhir For more tyranny and authoritarianism in the absence of the rule of law and institutions."
Under the title "Corruption and Reform", the author believes that experienced by the country now "make money the state between the rich and the society referred to two main layers: the rich getting richer and poor belch poorest and debt troubles, with the decline of the middle class gradually."
"Vices under the veil"
With regard to issues controversial "It extrapolation of the reality of offering cultural popular ideological in Saudi Arabia since unification early thirties of the twentieth century, as most of our issues that we are preparing substantial centered on whether the woman's face rougher or not and whether separate from women or contact them and the rule of leadership Women of the car and who are the Islamists and what are their specifications through the prerogative of liberals and who are infidels and atheists who want to show corruption in the country and among people? what we must to stand in the face of conspirators against religion. "
"These issues formal list under a veil accumulate beneath sometimes vices various manifestations of pleading by some Alshahuanyen to achieve exactly the mundane name of God and His laws. These problems overtaken by many Islamic countries economy is based mostly on the Saudi funding for failed country that feeds arteries world resources of petroleum that feeds people and awareness beyond the sterile debate and did not succeed the dominant culture in the cities transition to a society tools product in his thoughts and ideas and industry. "
J. A / p. (AFP, Reuters)

3/15/2013

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Baha’i in #egypt



January 2013- Despite the new year, Egyptian Minister of Education Ibrahim Deif reiterated his old comments about the (lack of) acceptance of Baha’i children in Egyptian government schools in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper “Al Akhbar al Yowm”.
The newspaper asked:
ما موقف الوزارة من أبناء من يعتنقون الديانة البهائية, و هل لهم الحق في الالتحاق بمدارسها بعد اعتراف الدستور الجديد بالديانات السماوية الثلاث فقط؟
What is the position of the Ministry regarding the children of Baha’is, and do they have the right to register in government schools after the recognition in the new constitution of only the three monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism)?
The Minister of Education, Ibrahim Deif, replied:
 هناك ديانات ثلاث معترف بها، و لن أعتزف بأي ديانة أجري، والتربية الديانية مادة اساسية و إذا استطاعوا استيفاء شروط الالتحاق بالمدارس فأهلا و سهلا بهم، و من لا يرضي بشروطي فلا مكان له عندي لأن الديانات المعترف بها دستوريا هي الديانات السماوية الثلاث فقط ولم يعترف بسواها
[The monotheistic faiths] are only three recognized religions, and no other faiths are recognized.  Religion is a crucial subject in school, and if [a student] is able to full the conditions of enrollment in government schools, then they are welcome. However, there is no place for anyone who does not accept these conditions because the only constitutionally recognized religions are the monotheistic faiths, and no others.
If readers find the tautologically confusing and meaningless response of the Minister of Education frustrating, then so do many others. Professor Basma Moussa, a Baha’i activist in Egypt, has a response of her own to the Egyptian Minister:
I have a question for the Minister. What are these conditions that are required for a Baha’i child to enroll in a public school, a school that we all used to attend without conditions, a school from which we succeeded and went on to hold prominent positions that serve our dear country, Egypt?  According to the new constitution itself, education is the right of every child, so please tell us, what are your conditions for an education so that Baha’i parents can figure out how to enroll their children in Egyptian schools, school that are built from the taxes that are taken from us, like they are taken from all Egyptians without discrimination. Please respond, thank you.
The Minister of Education’s remarks are an echo of his comments to another newspaper on November 30th, where he claimed “State law in accordance with government procedures only recognizes three religions, and the Baha’i faith is not among them. Thus their children do not have the right to register in government schools.” His new comments add unidentified “conditions” to the enrollment of Baha’i children in school, which is in fact more dangerous than closing the door entirely.
By claiming that there is a vague method for inclusion, the Egyptian government has the ability to discriminate against Baha’i children and the entire Baha’i community while claiming that there is nothing inherently discriminatory about their laws. Just like the new constitution affirms that “Freedom of belief is an inviolable right” while denying the legitimacy of any faith other than Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, the Minister of Education’s comments pave the way for a discriminatory policy against Baha’is that is given constitutional legitimacy.

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So when you riding through the ruts, don't you complicate your mind"
 
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