Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Greece expects tourism record for 2017
A record number of tourist visitors in 2016 was not enough, but it did certainly do the country good. As the 2017 tourist season starts, the industry is banking on an even better year.The tourist season in the old harbour of Skopelos island off Greece’s eastern coast is starting, as it often does, in a…
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Value of trade between Egypt, Greece drops to $1.3bn in 2016
Trade exchange between Egypt and Greece dropped 21.9% in 2016 to $1.3 billion from $1.7 billion in 2015, said chairman of the Greek side to the Egyptian-Greek business council Ioannis Yiotis. Yiotis was addressing the third forum of the council which was hosted by the Egyptian Businessmen Association on Wednesday. He asserted that both sides work on promoting economic relations,…
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Dr. Mustafa Al Faqi, Director of BA
The Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) chose on 11/5/2017 Dr. Mustafa Al Faqi as Director of BA. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi approved the selection of Al Faqi for the post. He is successor to Ismail Serag Eddin, who has been the director of the library since its opening in October 2002. CV…
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Archaeologists uncover 17 mummies in Egyptian necropolis
An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The discovery was made in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, a vast archaeological site on the edge of the western desert.…