The coffin of late Egyptian political thinker is to be transferred from France to Egypt Tuesday, ready for the funeral as outlined in his will
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Camillia Sobhy, a professor of comparative French literature at the faculty of linguistics and former head of Supreme Council for Culture, was appointed to head the NCT
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The National Archives will receive the full dossier of documents in the Mubarak trial once a final verdict is confirmed, says head
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EPA decision taken to protest Assad massacres across the 14 months of the Syrian revolution
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Sacked library chief says that he was removed because he supported April 6 Youth Movement; warns of return of 'police state'
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Khaled Fahmy, head of a committee charged with documenting Egypt's revolution, says he looks forward to resuming the work of the project
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Ahdaf Soueif, one of Egypt's most prominent English language novelists, tackles the January 25 Revolution in her new book about Cairo, 18 years after signing the contract with her publisher
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The decision of the new minister of culture to not renew the mandate of National Library head Zain Abdel-Hady is viewed by some as revenge against revolutionaries by old regime sympathisers
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Winners of this year's World Summit Award included several Arab and Egyptian entrants. Ahram Online takes a quick look at some of their more innovative ICT apps
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Arab writers returning from Gaza condemn Hamas repression, lament erasure of Palestinian character
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For artist Khaled Hafez, it is time to write down and share fragments of a thinking life
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Denis Johnson-Davis played a vital role in introducing modern Arabic literature to the English reader, even before Mahfouz received the Nobel prize
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Actor Ahmed Helmy's book signing event attracts fans that came to see a different side of the Egyptian star
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Philosophers are supposed to have answers to the real-time questions of democracy in Egypt, but they could only talk about the origins of the term 2,500 years ago
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One Syrian writer and intellectual delves into the motives behind the revolution in Syria and the current condition of the country in the regional and world contexts
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'The Yacoubian Building' author Alaa Al-Aswany shares views on revolution, foreign funding of Islamists and negative impact of extremist Islamic ideologies on Egyptian society
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Timothy Garton Ash thinks Egypt's transitional period is hard because the country has no external reference, Europe and the US are not opening their markets to it
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Historian Peter Gran, whose work challenges Euro-centric views of Egypt's history, will lecture on the rise of the West at the culture headquarters in Zamalek on Wednesday, 6pm
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New culture magazine hopes to revive values of its predecessor shut down during President Sadat's 'Massacre of the Magazines' in the early 70s
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Aliraqi used to describe Ibn Rushd as the last Arabian Philosopher
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