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Festival is gate to enhance relations between Egypt, African countries: Azza al-Husseiny
Daily News Egypt say down with Azza al-Husseiny, Luxor African Film Festival executive director, to discuss the latest features of the festival. What will be the special features in this edition of the Luxor African Film Festival? The mundane aspect of every film festival is the four main competitions: long narrative, long documentary, short narrative, …
Artists should manage film festivals, not government employees: Sayed Fouad
Diversity, increase of cultural events, state-sponsored or private, is always beneficial for society, says Luxor African Film Festival president
Balkan Egyptians to homeland: We belong to you
About 3,000 years ago, Egyptians travelled to Balkans to bring iron to Egypt
Chocolate market regains its taste and looks forward to growth
A number of companies in the chocolate industry are preparing to inject new investments into the market during the coming period as the economy recovers following the crises of the last two years. Chocolate production has declined in the last two years at rates ranging from 10 to 50% across many producers. The market expects …
Egypt tightens rules amid counterterrorism strategy
Stricter legal penalties, media monitoring, state bodies on alert
How are journalists coping with low salaries?
Financial crises at top of challenges threatening future of journalism
US stubbornly proceeds with Jerusalem plan, plans to open embassy in May
Announcement comes shortly after Abbas’ new proposed peace conference
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The cost of love: the economics of Valentine’s Day
Nationwide spending in US on Valentine’s Day expected to reach $19.6bn in 2018, US NRF says
Best time to drink your cup of coffee as prices fall
Global coffee supplies set to see surplus as top grower looks to harvest record volumes
Sinai 2018: Egypt mobilises for hopeful sweeping operation to end violence
Operation comes amid attacks on worship houses across Egypt, shortly before presidential election
Retailers extend sales to activate market, get rid of stored products
Shops are in sales since the beginning of January
15 days into Turkey’s operation in Afrin
Syrian Kurds targeted before Washington’s eyes
Motivational speakers: real influencers or swindlers?
Daily News Egypt spoke to social media users on what they think about motivational speakers
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Concerns over voter turnout after candidates vanish from presidential race
Election situation reflects poor political administration, inabilities of political powers, experts say
Social media advice groups: virtual escapism or communal solidarity
Advice groups increased recently on Facebook, giving users chance to tell concerns, seek medical, personal advice
Increasing world debt raises concerns about new global crisis
$233tn world debt may be warning sign of imminent financial crisis
Saudi women attend football matches for first time
Saudi Arabia has allowed female football fans into a stadium in Jeddah, marking the first time Saudi women were able to watch a game in person. The move comes as a part of what is thought to be a wider liberalisation drive.
Egypt’s food industry achieved $22.5bn revenues in 2017: USDA
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East with a population of around 100 million; the country’s population grows by about 2.5% annually. This also makes Egypt one of the world’s fastest growing markets for food and agricultural products. However, in the last decade, Egypt has been struggling with …
Paath paved for Al-Sisi’s second term?
Incumbent president yet to submit list of accomplishments as promised, complex situations face presidential hopefuls
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Wheat in focus as fierce competition, oversupply weigh on prices
World consumption and trade expected to decrease slightly in 2018
Post-Saleh guerrilla conflicts leave scores of civilians dead
In the past 10 days, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, said in a statement that all sides in the country’s conflict are indiscriminately killing civilians. He said airstrikes by the Saudi-led Arab coalition alone killed 68 noncombatants in one day. The UN last week described the civil conflict in Yemen as …
India and China: economies that will change the world as we know it
India to outperform British, French economies in 2018, China expected to outperform US economy in 15 years, with clear shift towards the Asian economy in global dominance
Media regulation in 2017: role of SMC between professional monitoring, moral observing
New code of conduct expected to be reinforced as some media content, presenters continue to stir controversy over ethics, professionalism
2017: yet another year of journalists’ targeting
More international pressure on news organisations, authorities to take more measures to secure journalists
Inflow of refugees continues to be topic of discussion in international community
Sisi, EU discuss migration issues, asylum seekers within Egypt-EU migration dialogue
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#MeToo movement puts responsibility of publicising sexual harassment on victims: critics
The movement beat finalists Mohammed bin Salman and Trump, himself accused of sexual harassment
Yemen: a country ruined by all parties
Humanitarian situation worsening in years of war fuelled by Muslim powers over Middle East control, with no prospect for victories
New youth law tips scales of political participation in society
The law enforcement is yet awaiting Al-Sisi’s ratification
Pre-emptively targeting terrorists threatening national security is legitimate: in-depth analysis of Justice Adel Maged study on countering terrorism in Sinai
It is complacently wrong to name members of the terrorist groups in Sinai “fighters” or “insurgents”. In fact, according to established rules of international law, they should be labelled as “armed terrorist groups”: Adel Maged
Recognition of reality: Jerusalem capital of Palestine, Israel an occupying entity
Trump’s decision tonight will not change the reality of the city of Jerusalem, nor will it give any legitimacy to Israel: Abbas