For our May meeting (Sunday 12th May, IN PERSON) we explore the fascinating world of Deir el Medina with Suzanne Bojtos.
Deir el Medina was a village in western Thebes that housed the community of workmen who built and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of Kings. This is our most important source of evidence for towns and villages in Egypt. (1/2)
ANCA Calls for Expulsion of Rep. Cuellar from Congress - Sarah Leah Whitson: Is anyone following the tsunami of foreign government corruption that has overtaken our government? Latest examples are @repcuellar now indicted for taking $600K from #Azerbaijan on the heels of @SenatorMenendez indictment for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes from #Egypt... 🧵@azerbaijan@egypt
The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war, which it says would ease conditions for them until the conflict is over.
Diab al-Louh, the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo, said as many as 100,000 Palestinians had crossed into Egypt, where they lack the papers to enroll their children in schools, open businesses or bank accounts, travel, or access health insurance. @palestine #Gaza #Egypt #visa
This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old!
It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate.
Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD.
On Wednesday, the IDF Chief of Staff and Shin Bet Director met in Cairo with Egypt's Intelligence Chief and other key officials to discuss a possible #IDF operation in #Rafah – Senior Israeli Officials to Axios
For those stupid people who were hailing #Sisi when he talked some nonsense about giving an ultimatum to Israel about their planned incursion into Rafah, this is the true face of the American puppet and genocide enabler Sisi and his criminal gang.
At least 14 activists were arrested today in #Cairo during a protest in solidarity with the women of #Gaza and #Sudan outside the UN Women regional office headquarters. They were reading a statement calling for an end to the occupation in #Palestine and the war in Sudan.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an evacuation programme for Rafah will be carried out in cooperation between the US, Egypt, and the UAE.
ISN'T THIS JUST LOVELY?
all the Red lines, "unacceptable action", "threat of war" and all other BS were for the show and give Israel more time to plan and advance their plans.
#GenocideJoe really showing how much power he has over #Netanyahu and his genocidal regime.
#Egypt#DIgitalRights#Activism#HumanRights: "Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, EFF has joined 26 free expression and human rights organizations calling for immediate action.
The appeal to the UNWGAD was initially filed in November 2023 just weeks after Alaa’s tenth birthday in prison. The British-Egyptian citizen is one of the most high-profile prisoners in Egypt and has spent much of the past decade behind bars for his pro-democracy writing and activism following Egypt’s revolution in 2011."
@dragnucs@liaizon really? Maybe I recent years (>2015) are not as active and no longer in the media focus, but i guess in the early 2000+ they were all over the news (in #egypt at least) for terrorist attacks in #Somalia and disrupting horn of Africa region