Tag: Alexandria
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Plan to restructure Alexandria Port to be delivered in Q1 2016: Minister of Transport
The Port of Singapore is developing a comprehensive plan to reform Egypt’s ports. Alexandria Port is the first port to be addressed in this more over-arching framework, Al-Geioushy said Monday during the International Maritime Transport and Logistics Conference. Cooperation between Egypt and Singapore aims to reduce port operations expenditures. There are currently more than 4,000…
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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive
[This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal.] Hala Halim’s book is a provocative and erudite study of the modern European literary discourses that have constructed Alexandria as the exemplary site of what we might call cosmopolitan desire. Following Edward Said’s critique of orientalism’s endless discursive recycling of itself, Halim…
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New Provincial Governor in Alexandria
Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Zaher– Alexandria Governor:A civil engineer who served as the secretary-general for the governorates of Cairo and Alexandria. Ahmed Helmi Fathi – Suez Governor:A former military general who served as governor of Marsa Matrouh in 2012 under former president Mohamed Morsi. Al-Sayed Ibrahim – Kafr El-Sheikh Governor:A former police officer who held several posts…
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Egypt holds its breath for development of underwater museum
“The museum will reshape the Arab region, as it will be the first of its kind in the world. Undoubtedly it will revive tourism and boost the Egyptian economy after a long recession,” Youssef Khalifa, the chairman of the Central Administration of Lower Egypt Antiquities, told Al-Monitor. “The museum will consist of two parts: One…