Daily Star (Egypt)

CAIRO: Students from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) staged protests Wednesday at universities across Egypt, against jail sentences handed down to 25 members of the group who were tried by a military court.

CAIRO: Professors throughout Egypt went on strike Sunday to renew demands for better pay and working conditions.Simultaneous protests were held at 1 pm outside university administrative buildings. Some 200 university professors attended the protest at Cairo University.

CAIRO: The heads of university clubs, which represent the interests of teaching faculty in the absence of a union, will meet Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Tuesday to discuss demands for higher pay ahead of strike action planned for March 23.

Two Egyptian students at a Florida university, accused by prosecutors of promoting terrorist attacks, had fireworks and not explosives in their car when they were detained, the FBI reported. Ahmed

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CAIRO: More than 250 Palestinian students from the isolated Gaza Strip were allowed into Egypt Sunday after having been prohibited from leaving the territories for months.Palestinian officials told AFP that 254 students were allowed to depart Gaza

CAIRO: This year’s Edward Said memorial lecture at the American University in Cairo was delivered by Dr Cornel West: a philosopher, activist, cultural icon, occasional film actor and professor of religion

CAIRO: Two journalists have filed a series of complaints against both campus security at Ain Shams University and its president, Ahmed Zaki Badr, and say that guards obstructed them from reporting on student demonstrations last week, blocking one man’s entrance to the campus and violently beating another who made it inside.

Starbucks Egypt donated 20 percent of its first month’s sales in a bid to promote literacy in Egypt.Member of Alshaya Retail Group, Starbucks Egypt joined forces with 4-OurKidz — an Egyptian NGO — to support

CAIRO: More than 22,000 teachers at Al-Azhar schools and educational institutions have gone on strike, demanding the implementation of the new teachers' law passed by the People's Assembly (PA) two weeks

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BOSTON, Massachusetts: Emerson College sponsored an event last Tuesday to promote "America at a Crossroads", the series of documentaries running this week on PBS analyzing the challenges the United States now encounters in the post-9/11 world.

CAIRO: RWE Dea announced yesterday, in a press conference at the Conrad Hotel, plans to sponsor primary schools in Greater Cairo as part of its Social Activities Project, which focuses on improving children’s lives through education.

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DOHA: Education Minister Yousry El Gamal hopes to bring illiteracy levels in Egypt down from 29 percent to the “single digits” within four years, he told The Daily Star Egypt during the three-day lite