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‘Night and Day Difference’: The Growth of Good Publishing in Egypt
The Gospel Coalition
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July 16, 2025
Over the past year or so, I’ve been noticing a pattern in the international stories I cover—wherever there’s a gospel-centered movement, there’s a new and growing Reformed book publisher. This is true whether the population can’t afford books,...
South Africa, Egypt, Botswana Others Storm Abeokuta For Africa’s U18/U20 Athletics Championships
Leadership
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July 15, 2025
Abeokuta is abuzz with anticipation as it prepares to host the 3rd African U18/U20 Athletics Championships, with delegations from across the continent arriving in Nigeria. Countries including South Sudan, Seychelles, and Congo have already landed...
Too Young to Work, Too Young to Die: Egypt’s Ongoing Child Labor Crisis
Egyptian Streets
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July 15, 2025
Earlier this month, a road accident in Egypt’s Menoufia Governorate killed 19 young agricultural workers, most of which were teenage girls. They had been commuting from their village Kafr al-sanabsa to fields in Sadat City when their minibus...
Ambassador of Belarus S.Terentiev meets the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt for European Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
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15 July 2025 On July 13, 2025, on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sergei Terentiev, met with the Deputy Minister...
The discovery that unlocked the secrets of Ancient Egypt
AS
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July 15, 2025
Today, Tuesday 15 July, marks 226 years since the discovery of an ancient artifact that transformed the way that we understand the ancient world. The Rosetta Stone was found in the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta in July 1799. The stela...
Palm raises over $1 million pre-seed to help Egyptians save and invest for life goals
MENAbytes
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July 15, 2025
Palm, an Egyptian fintech focused on goal-based saving, has raised over $1 million in a pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures, with participation from Plus VC and a group of international angels, it announced today. The exact size of the round was...
Egypt: Koppert and Fresh Energy Expand Partnership After Egypt’s First Large-Scale Biological Crop Protection Success
AgriBusiness Global
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July 14, 2025
Koppert and Fresh Energy have signed a renewed and expanded partnership agreement, following the success of Egypt’s first large-scale biological crop protection program in commercial greenhouse production last season. The agreement was signed on...
Dutch Minister says EU deal with Israel is allowing aid into Gaza; Egypt says no
NL Times
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July 15, 2025
Caretaker Minister Caspar Veldkamp of Foreign Affairs says that a European Union agreement with Israel has resulted in 180 trucks with emergency aid entering Gaza on Monday. Egypt said on Monday that Israel’s agreement with the EU had not yet...
Tut Group Launches Its Operations In Egyptian Market For Exporting Egyptian Products - Dailynewsegypt
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Tut Group, a leading Egyptian holding company, has officially announced the launch of its operations in the Egyptian market, introducing the first fully integrated ecosystem dedicated to exporting Egyptian products to...
Al-Sisi reviews Egypt’s food security, strategic commodity reserves
Daily News Egypt
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July 15, 2025
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held a high-level meeting on Tuesday with key government officials to review Egypt’s food security strategy and assess the status of the country’s strategic commodity reserves, according to a presidential statement....
Egyptian Startup Tackles Fake Cash-on-Delivery Orders with New Shopify App
Egyptian Streets
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July 13, 2025
In Egypt’s fast-growing e-commerce market, cash remains king. But while Cash on Delivery (COD) offers convenience and trust for customers, it continues to cause major headaches for online store owners, particularly when it comes to fake or...
Hidden 5,000-year-old art discovered in ‘Land of Gold’ cave will rewrite Egyptian history
Daily Express
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July 15, 2025
An ancient Egyptian rock engraving could reveal the secrets of the earliest days of the first dynasty, archaeologists believe. The engraving, found near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, has proved to be revolutionary for excavators due to its...
Egypt, EU, and Italy launch €24m integrated rural development project
Daily News Egypt
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July 14, 2025
Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Alaa Farouk, inaugurated the first technical committee meeting of the Integrated Rural Development Project, joined by European Union Ambassador to Cairo Angelina Eichhorst, Italian Ambassador...
Talk Like an Egyptian: Genesius Guild’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” at Lincoln Park through July 20
River Cities' Reader - Iowa
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July 15, 2025
I’ve never been disappointed to spend a Sunday in the park with Shakespeare, though I am grateful that, this past Sunday night, the weather was fairly mild for July. I admit to being only vaguely familiar with Antony & Cleopatra before the evening...
An ‘announcement to global markets that our labor is cheap’: Egypt’s first minimum hourly wage
Mada Masr
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July 15, 2025
When the National Wages Council (NWC) announced a minimum wage increase for private sector workers effective March 1, it included a new component for the first time: a minimum hourly wage for “temporary” workers. Their net hourly wage must not...
Egypt says Israel-EU agreement has not increased aid to Gaza
Yahoo News
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday that the flow of aid into Gaza has not increased despite an agreement last week between Israel and the European Union that should have had that result. "Nothing has changed (on the...
China to finance Egyptian high-speed line
International Railway Journal
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July 15, 2025
$US 3bn loan will finance construction of 250km line from Port Said to Abu Qir. A consortium of Egyptian construction companies has secured guarantees for a $US 3bn loan from several Chinese banks to finance construction of a 250km high-speed line...
Importing Egyptian Fruits: 7 Buyer Advantages
The European Business Review
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July 15, 2025
If you handle produce procurement, the question is no longer whether to import fresh fruit from Egypt but how to do it efficiently. Egypt’s blend of year-round sunshine, fertile Nile soils, and strategic shipping lanes has turned the country into...
‘Aladdin’ Star Mena Massoud on His First Egyptian Film and the Challenges of Crossing Over From Hollywood to the Middle East: ‘I’m Doing Omar Sharif in Reverse’
Variety
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July 15, 2025
“Aladdin” star Mena Massoud, who is a Canadian actor of Egyptian heritage, recently starred in — and produced — his first Arabic-language film “In Broad Daylight.” In the action movie, he plays an Egyptian expat named Hamza El Kashef who returns...
Grand Egyptian Museum Launches Summer Jewelry-Making Program for Adults
Sada Elbalad
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July 15, 2025
Tue 15 Jul 2025 | 08:37 PM The Education Department at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has announced the launch of a new and unique summer educational program tailored for adults. This initiative is part of the museum’s ongoing efforts to raise...