Source: Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East Israel’s Mossad spy agency helped Greece stop an Iranian cell planning to launch terror attacks against Israeli nationals in Athens, the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Greek authorities revealed that they arrested two Pakistani nationals who were allegedly planning mass casualty terrorist attacks against […]
Source: Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East The oldest known near-complete Hebrew Bible was presented to the press on Wednesday in Tel Aviv, where it will be displayed for a week before going under the hammer in New York. The Codex Sassoon is one of only two codices, or manuscripts, containing all 24 books […]
Source: Egyptian Streets Mother’s Day Blues: The Other Side of a Beloved Egyptian Holiday On the eve of Mother’s Day—which falls on 21 March—shops line up with floral arrangements and endearing gifts to celebrate the occasion. When I asked my mother how she wanted to celebrate this day, she told me did not […]
Source: Egyptian Gazette Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek el-Molla on Monday met with a delegation from the Athens-based American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in for energy co-operation. During the meeting, the minister spoke of the many areas of co-operation between the two sides topped by the trade and circulation of liquefied gas. The partnership […]
Source: Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East ANKARA — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is set to travel to Egypt over the weekend, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, in first such diplomatic trip since 2012. Cavusoglu will pay the country an official visit on Saturday, the ministry’s statement read, adding that he and […]
Source: Al-Monitor: The Pulse of The Middle East The pain wells up inside Naki Bega as she remembers being herded onto a train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi’s most notorious extermination camp. They “threw us into (cattle) wagons with a very small window, no water, no food. About 13 days later we arrived in Birkenau,” said […]
Source: Egyptian Streets Rolling Through Cairo: Around the World in Six Wraps Traveling the world is written on thousands of bucket lists, but with the recent global economic crisis, backpacking across the world has become difficult, if not entirely unattainable. Food, however, still manages to bring distant cultures closer. Food is an essential […]
Source: Egypt Independent Egypt ranked second place amongst the top 10 tourist destinations preferred by Brazilian tourists for 2022, based on a survey by the Melhores Destinos website. Over 15,000 readers participated to choose the best international tourist destination. Readers were asked about which destinations they visited abroad first, and in the the second part […]
Source: Egyptian Gazette Shoukry, Greek FM confer on boosting bilateral co-operation – Egyptian Gazette Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry conducted a phone call on Tuesday with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid said that both ministers discussed files of boosting bilateral co-operation and strategic ties binding Egypt and […]
Source: Egypt Independent Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece killed dozens of people and left scores injured, raising questions about the country’s poor track record of railway safety. At least 38 people were killed when a passenger train carrying more than 350 people collided with […]