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Education
Herbal courses
Ain Shams University's Faculty of Pharmacology will be introducing a new herbal medicine course into its basic curriculum, according to an item in Al-Akhbar. The new course is set to be taught at the beginning of next semester. The introduction of the new course comes at a time when physiotherapy graduates are in a running dispute with the medical syndicate over whether their degrees qualify them as doctors.
Archaeology
Amr Ibn El-'As comes to life
The LE11 million restoration effort at the mosque of Amr Ibn El-'As, Egypt's and Africa's oldest mosque, is set to be completed by August, reports Al-Akhbar. The event will be celebrated in grand style, as part of the larger scheme to upgrade the entire Old Cairo area, and promote it to tourists as a millennia-old meeting place of the three monotheistic religions. The area also features the famous Hanging Church and the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Miscellaneous
China and the Bibliotecha
China has donated a replica of an ancient Chinese statue of a horse to the Bibliotecha Alexandrina project, the grand recreation of the ancient Alexandria Library that will be officially inaugurated in April 2002. The nearly complete Library now rises along the Alexandria corniche in a dramatic half-dome structure, and is currently undergoing a trial period as its employees are trained in the latest library science techniques. Former World Bank top executive Ismail Serageddin is the library's director. The Chinese city of Shanghai had previously signed a protocol agreement with the library to exchange cultural heritage and translations.
Television
Please choose better
Al-Wafd is critical on a recent arts page of the TV show "Ikhtarna Lak," the popular, long-running variety show that purports to offer clips from different, supposedly interesting programs and events from around the world. The piece in Al-Wafd claims that for the past two weeks, the show has aired the exact same clips, including something on special effects in the movies, and a new group dance. The article questions the show's host's announcement that the clips in each episode were brand new, and wonders how the incident passed unnoticed by the myriad of bosses and technicians in the TV building...
Telephone news
The end of the kiosk phone?
The telecommunications police will be conducting city-wide investigations in the next few weeks in an attempt to stop kiosks and super markets from overcharging their customers for phone calls. A kiosk or supermarket having a phone out by the counter for customers to use, usually at a cost of 50 piasters for a three minute call, used to be a standard sight, but has seen somewhat of a drop in the last few years as mobile and pay phones have become more accessible and popular. The phone company says it wants to put an end to kiosks overcharging customers, and will insist that if they want to continue offering the service, they must charge customers exactly what the phone company charges them, around 10 piasters per 6 minutes.
Egyptians abroad
The figures arrive
According to recently released census figures, some 820,000 Egyptians are considered permanent emigrants, amongst whom 318,000 reside in the United States. As for Egyptians who are temporarily residing abroad for work purposes, especially in Gulf countries -- the number is 1.8 million. Of those, 923,000 work in Saudi Arabia, 332,000 in Libya, 226,000 in Jordan, and 190,000 in Kuwait.
The figures on internal population include the stunning revelation that 24 percent of Egypt's population lives in the greater Cairo vicinity...
The study also claims that Egyptians who reside abroad and who have doctorate degrees number 822. That particular figure seems especially low, so if you are an Egyptian cairolive.com reader who lives abroad, and you have a doctorate, write to us and let us know so we can start a count of our own.
Tourism
Germans tops in package tours
Of all the package tourism that comes to Egypt each year, the lion's share is coming from Germany, said Tourism Minister Mamdouh El-Beltagui recently.
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