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Egypt
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Society
8/30/2023 7:26:07 PM
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research signed an agreement on Wednesday to grant 100 scholarships to outstanding Upper Egyptian Thanaweya Amma students -- high school graduates -- to study at foreign universities in the New Administrative Capital (NAC).
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Egypt
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Society
8/28/2023 11:32:45 PM
Egypt has launched a major new initiative - dubbed EGYAID - with scholarships and residency rights to attract more international students to the country's universities as part of transforming the country's higher education institutions into fourth-generation schools.
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World
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International
8/17/2023 8:43:54 PM
Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
8/7/2023 4:57:30 PM
More than 850 scholars, archaeologists, heritage experts, Egyptologists, and students from 32 countries, including Egypt, have converged on Leiden, the Netherlands, to take part in the International Congress of Egyptology (ICE), held from 6 to 11 August.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/1/2023 8:57:50 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb has called for “Islamic-Islamic” dialogue between Islamic scholars around the world, of all sects and schools, to establish unity following the frequent Quran-burning incidents in the past two months in Europe.
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Egypt
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Society
8/1/2023 5:19:07 PM
Nile University has announced that it will offer fully-funded scholarships to 70 outstanding Egypt's Thanaweya Amma students – high school students – during the 2023-2024 academic year, the university President Wael Akl said on Tuesday.
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World
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Region
7/25/2023 3:59:53 PM
The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the world's largest scholarly and professional organization of anthropologists, announced that it has passed a resolution endorsing a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, in a statement on Monday.
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World
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International
7/23/2023 8:37:38 PM
As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists.
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Egypt
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Society
7/20/2023 2:51:26 PM
If you are a Thanaweya Amma high school senior student looking for a scholarship to fund your undergraduate education through the 2023-2024 academic year, there are a handful of opportunities whose deadlines are fast approaching.
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World
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International
5/24/2023 4:00:50 PM
A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University professor.
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World
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Region
5/15/2023 2:20:19 PM
The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan went on trial at a Geneva criminal court Monday charged with "rape and sexual coercion", allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies.
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Business
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Tech
5/1/2023 4:53:11 PM
The National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) announced they would be accepting applications for the four-month scholarship of the Digital Egypt Youth (DEY) initiative until 24 June, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) said on Monday.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/13/2023 7:07:53 PM
Directed by the Syrian Al-laith Hajjo, the historical soap opera Resalet Al-Imam (The Imam's Message) retraces the journey of the famous Muslim scholar Mohamad Idriss Al-Shafei in Egypt
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World
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International
4/10/2023 2:24:56 PM
The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan's northwestern Herat province, an official said Monday. The moves followed complaints from religious scholars and members of the public about mixing of genders in such places, he said.
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Business
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Tech
3/7/2023 2:35:25 PM
The National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) has opened registration for a scholarship for the one-month-long Digital Egypt Youth (DEY) initiative, the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said on Monday evening.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/3/2023 10:05:12 PM
Late translator Humphrey Davies and Dutch scholar Marcel Kurpershoek have supplied new additions to NYU’s Library of Arabic Literature, underlining the scope of this important series, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
11/29/2022 10:18:09 PM
Egyptology recently lost one of its greatest scholars with the death of Australian Egyptologist David O’Connor, writes Zahi Hawass
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/27/2022 8:40:27 PM
Tarek Osman describes the career of the late 19th-century Islamic scholar Jamaluddin Al-Afghani as part of his series of articles on the makers of modern Egypt
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/11/2022 10:08:39 PM
Did Arab scholars contribute to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics years before Frenchman Jean-François Champollion
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Arts & Culture
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Music
9/10/2022 2:32:57 PM
The Egyptian musicologist, scholar and composer Nahla Mattar released a video on YouTube of the Italian pianist Sara Moro performing her biographical A Day's Repeated Moments composition at the Church of Saint Francesco in Taranto.
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