AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF PRIME MINISTERS OF EGYPT- 1878-1952.  BY KAMAL KARIM KATBA. EPISODE #1 !0 : NIZARAT RIYAD AND NUBAR  PASHAS UNDER THE REIGN OF  KHEDIVE ABBAS HELMY . "One of the most important actions of the Ryad Cabinet was its genuine interest in irrigation and agriculture.  To use wisely the Nile water and to protect the Country against the sometime severe floods of the river, the Cabinet formed a committee of three notorious European Engineers to study the feasibility of building several dams and to decide about their emplacements.  That decision was the prelude to the erection of several dams, particularly the (old) Aswan Dam, that were built a few years later.".

 
 

THE SUEZ DOSSIER - PART FOUR "   BY DR. SALAH AL-DIN AL-HOMOSANY.

 
 

THE RIDDLE OF THE WORDS BY ISHINAN: FIRST , SECOND, THIRD PARTS --THEMES "THE REED": Amazingly the 7000 years old Ancient Egyptian term for "reed" managed to survive without alteration in many current Modern languages such as English, French, Spanish, Italian, and of course in our Modern Arabic. Can you name this mysterious term which has survived in so many languages, referring to so many different applications?

 
 

ANSWERS TO THE RIDDLE OF THE WORDS BY ISHINAN: FIRST & SECOND THEMES "ODYSSEY OF THE "REED"  -- PART ONE & TWO

 
 

EGYPT'S INDUSTRIAL PLAN: REASONS OF FAILURE AND PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS BY DR. IBRAHIM ABDEL MOTALEB. PART ONE.

 

THE STATUS OF CULTURE IN EGYPT BY DR. IBRAHIM M. ABDEL MOTTALEB -- {EPISODE FOUR} Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Mottaleb, along with many astute commentators and prognosticators of all stripes, frequently notes that Egyptian culture has been in decline since the 1970's. The examples he cites touch all aspects of our culture.  If he is correct that we are in the midst of a cultural decline, can we find a way out of this dilemma?   Dr. Ibrahim's serialized articles explore these possibilities. (In Arabic)

 
 

THREE COMMENTARIES ON THE STATUS OF CULTURE IN EGYPT BY HAZEM WEFY A TV PROGRAMER, MS. MONA MAHMOUD A WRITER AND DR. YOUSSEF HEGAZY AN EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT.

 
 

RESPONSE TO  COMMENTARIES ON THE STATUS OF CULTURE IN EGYPT BY  DR. IBRAHIM M. ABDEL MOTTALEB

 
 

" MIN WARA' AL-`AQL" BY DR. SOUMAYA EL-SAYED. A unique religious experience about an individual's thirst for the quest of life beyond oneself.

 
 

"ANA LIWAHDIY  WA LA AMID 'AYDIY !!  . . ." BY  DR. SOUMAYA MAHMOUD .. (In Arabic)

 

"MAHMUWD WA HADUWTIT AL-MUWLID ... WA" BY  SOUMAYA MAHMOUD. A short story  evoking the childhood  memories of a  tender love of a father who is still missed, still loved,  and very dear to the heart. (In Arabic)

 

"HADHA AL-RAGUL QATALA NAFSAHU" THIS MAN KILLED HIMSELF; BY NEVEEN EL-GAMAL. A short  Egyptian story  about what happens to a  young man who kills himself  by choosing not to think . (In Arabic)

 
 

A RECIPE " WASFAH" A SHORT STORY BY MONA MAHMOUD (In Arabic)

 

"MA QABL WAFAT MALIK" A SHORT STORY BY DR. MOHAMED NAGUIB `ABDALLAH {IN ARABIC} .

 

"MIN YAWMIYAT ZAHRAH" A SHORT STORY BY DR. MOHAMED NAGUIB `ABDALLAH {IN ARABIC} .

 

MUHAMMAD `UWDAH : EGYPT IS PREGNANT WITH A SOCIAL REVOLUTION ... "Parallel between Revolution and pregnancy. In the very early stages of pregnancy, if just on empirical evidence you ask whether or not someone is pregnant, the answer will be no. However, with the use of science you can determine whether the person is pregnant very early. Later on it becomes evident for everybody to see. The same thing is true of social revolution. In the early stages most people don’t see it. You always begin on the assumption that in every society that needs a revolution, the majority of the people don’t think it’s possible." P.C. ( IN ARABIC)

 

A TWIST OF FATE: THE DNA STORY -- A TRIBUTE TO FRANCIS CRICK - DNA Scientists around the world have paid tribute to British scientist Francis Crick, co-discover of the structure of DNA and the simple way in which genetic material is copied, who passed away on Wednesday night. He died at a hospital in San Diego, California, where he had been battling colon cancer. He was 88.  Crick is credited with a number of important discoveries but will be best remembered for determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953.

 

FROM THE LATEST OF SOUMAYA'S DIWAN: A QASIYDAH ENTITLED: KAN ISMAHA YA SAMA`IYN . . . &  BAHIYAH.B(In Arabic) AHIYAH.

 

1-MAQAMAT AL-HARIYRIY  2-RISALIT AHMAD IBN FADLAN BY ISHINAN.  A HISTORICAL LEGACY THAT IS SHEDDING NEW LIGHT BOTH ON VIKING HISTORY AND ON A LITTLE-KNOWN CHAPTER OF EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY.

 

"IHDA'KHAS LI ZAYNAB" A SHORT  EGYPTIAN STORY BY SOUMAYA MAHMOUD. (In Arabic)

 

THE TRAP OF DOMESTIC BOREDOM BY MS. NAGLA' MAHMOUD. (In Arabic)

 

'AZAGAL ABUW HAMIYD AL-MISRIY --  BY DR. AHMED El-TABBAKH. (In Arabic)

 

LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN EGYPT BY NAGLAA MAHMOUD. PART THREE--A THREE EPISODE SERIES, WHICH CONCENTRATES ON IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUES IN EGYPT.  THE SUBJECT MATTER REVOLVES AROUND LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN EGYPT. (In Arabic) .

 

"AL-BAYT" A SHORT STORY BY MONA MA7MOUD --  IN ARABIC

 

THE GATEWAY TO THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT (EPISODE XI)-- THE NEW KINGDOM BY JANO EL-KADY-- -The circumstances of Queen Nefertiti's bust smuggling to the Berlin museum by Dr. James Simon and consequent  Hitler's adamant  refusal to give it back to its lawful owner Egyp

 

FALSE DAWN --THE CHRONICLES OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITION. (EPISODE FIVE).

 

THE LION OF THE EAST --   (EPISODE NINE) THELURE OF THE WHITE GOLD " Within ten years of his coming to power, Muhammad `Aliy Pasha succeeded in virtually nationalizing the land in Egypt by destroying the agrarian position of the privileged classes he found in the country. Having destroyed the old 'iltizam system. Muhammad `Aliy distributed land to the peasants and the village headmen. While allotting small tracts of land to peasants  (3-5 feddans) for cultivation, and permitting them to dispose freely of the produce.

 

THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE TURBULENT LEGACY- (EPISODE NINE)

 

THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND -- BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT.  EPISODE FIVE - "THE GATHERING STORM." Based on the life of Ahmad `Urabiy Pasha and the 1881-1882 Revolution.

 

THE 1919 REVOLUTION -- MARCH 8th  PART.. Allenby retaliates for the assassination of  Sir Lee Stack  by ordering  the withdrawal of Egyptian troops from the Sudan, thus modifying the terms of the Condominium, and imposing a fine of half a million pounds on Egypt.

 

THE LOST MEMOIRS OF EX-KING FARUWQ I -EPISODE NINE-- ON BOARD OF THE MAHRUWSAH, JULY 26, 1952- " When a country is in the hands of its army, anything can happen"

 

EGYPT'S DESTINY BY LIWA'  MUHAMMAD NAGIYB  -- EPISODE TEN  -- CHAPTER TWO -- THE SON OF THE NILE

 

THE CROSSING OF THE SUEZ CANAL BY - Lt. GENERAL SA`D AL-SHAZLIY -( THE COMPLETE EPISODES # 1 - 43) .  In 1973 the Bar-Lev line looked so steadfast that Moshe Dayan, then minister of defence, claimed that it “would take the American and Soviet engineer corps together to break through it  But on 6 October 1973, it took the Egyptian military only a few hours to break through and overrun the “in-destructible” line.  In the end, the line that had stood up to two years of Egyptian artillery-fire throughout the war of attrition, succumbed to water. British-made high-pressure water cannons used the water of the Suez Canal to dissolve the hardened sand and melt the formidable artificial landscape into pools of mud.  Two days later, 8 October 1973, brought the most bitter defeat in IDF history, when waves of bewildered Israeli soldiers in an armoured counter-offensive broke against a dug-in Egyptian army equipped with previously unknown personal anti-tank missiles. That day, Moshe Dayan proclaimed that the “Third Temple was falling”.

 

A LOOK AT EGYPT'S EDUCATION SYSTEM BY JANO EL-KADY "Among Egypt's challenges to become an active participant in the globalized changing world of today is the nations educational system currently under close review. Holistic theory indicates that there is no one complete system but a combination of sub-system are the ingredients required for major achievements or progress."

 

"GHARAH" A SHORT STORY BY DR. MOHAMED NAGUIB `ABDALLAH  {IN ARABIC} .

 

" BOMBARD US " A POEM BY EHAB LOTAYEF

 

MICHAEL MOORE'S FAHRNHEIT 911 REVIEWED BY HAZEM WEFY

 
 

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