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Arts & Culture
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Music
6/6/2023 5:52:41 PM
Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema" a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova genre, has died at age 83, her family said.
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World
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Region
6/4/2023 10:15:10 AM
Fifty Islamic State-group jihadists and 168 Iraqi members of jihadist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
6/3/2023 3:13:49 PM
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died Friday in Paris at the age of 70, her family and publisher said in separate statements.
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World
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Region
6/1/2023 6:42:30 PM
The wedding of Jordan's crown prince to the scion of a prominent Saudi family was set to begin on Thursday in a palace celebration that drew massive crowds and a mood of excitement around the kingdom, while presenting the young Hashemite royal as a new player on the global stage.
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Egypt
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Health
5/31/2023 12:53:48 PM
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Pharco Pharmaceutical signed a cooperation protocol to enhance family planning, reproductive services, and address population issues in Egypt, the Ministry of Health and Population announced on Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
5/30/2023 7:45:38 PM
In a plan to start her own professional career and give a hand to her family financing her college study, one young woman has started selling desserts by bicycle.
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Egypt
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Health
5/27/2023 11:03:24 PM
Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Saturday that 66.4 percent of married women in the country use family planning methods, a 7.9 percent increase over the 58.5 percent figure back in 2014.
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World
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International
5/25/2023 5:58:09 PM
A prominent Pakistani television journalist known for his public support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the police, his family and his employer said.
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World
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Africa
5/24/2023 12:00:22 PM
A grieving family gathers in their yard in a town near Pretoria, mourning the death of a relative who fell victim to a deadly cholera outbreak which has killed 15 people in recent days.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/18/2023 7:20:49 PM
The Egyptian National Dialogue delved into pressing topics on Thursday, as the Family and Community Cohesion Committee tackled the complex issues of financial and educational guardianship. Meanwhile, the Culture and National Identity Committee embarked on an exploration of the ever-evolving concept of national identity.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/16/2023 10:30:06 AM
Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1942 in the village of Birwe, in Upper Galilee. Birwe was destroyed in 1948 after its inhabitants were made to flee the village. The extract which follows is taken from a memoir Darwish wrote during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In it, he remembers his first encounter with Beirut in 1948, before his family stole back into what has since become Israel, where Darwish remained until 1972
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/16/2023 10:21:56 AM
Edward Said returns home 45 years after the Nakba to find his family's house in Jerusalem occupied by a right-wing Christian fundamentalist and militantly pro-Zionist group
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/16/2023 10:16:13 AM
In these extracts from his controversial memoir, "Death March", Father Audeh Rantisi remembers the horrific scenes that confronted him, aged 11, when his family were brutally deported from their home of many generations in 1948 to make what life they could for themselves in the refugee camps of Ramallah
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/15/2023 1:24:28 PM
Samia Abdennour recalls the diaspora of her family 50 years ago, its impact on her as a child and, later, as a mother
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 10:20:19 PM
When Najah Nabhan learned that her home was about to be bombed by Israel, she knew she had to get out quickly. What she didn’t know was how she would get her four children with special needs out of the building in time.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 6:37:16 PM
Abdel-Qader Yassin, veteran Palestinian political activist, recounts his last sight of hometown in Jaffa, which he was forced to flee with his family at the age of 10, in 1948
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World
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International
5/9/2023 12:54:49 PM
China announced the expulsion of a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday in retaliation for Ottawa ordering a Chinese consular official to leave the country over alleged threats he made against a Canadian lawmaker and his family.
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World
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Region
5/9/2023 10:06:44 AM
An air strike killed a major drug smuggler and his family in southern Syria late Monday, a war monitor said, attributing the strike to Jordan which has neither confirmed nor denied.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/7/2023 11:16:29 AM
Dani Clos, a former Spanish racecar driver, and his family have been invited by the Egyptian Tourism Authority to visit Egypt's top tourist and archaeological sites as part of their efforts to promote the country's destinations.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
5/6/2023 7:42:47 PM
In a case that shook the nation, an Egyptian man received a death sentence for the murder of seven family members in Alexandria in what became known as the "Alexandria Massacre."
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