In an article he published in the daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm, former Egyptian culture minister Hilmi Al-Namnam complains that Egypt does not attribute sufficient importance to the sciences, which is one of the reasons no Egyptian has even won a Nobel Prize in the scientific fields. Since Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the Egyptians have yearned for
During the Sharm Al-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP 27), held in Egypt in November 6-8, 2022, Egyptian and Western human rights activists and organizations attempted to leverage this international event, attended by many world leaders, to raise awareness in the West about the issue of political prisoners in Egypt, who reportedly number in the tens of thousands. The
As the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2023, Holocaust deniers in the Arab and Muslim world, using both traditional and social media platforms continue to deny, question and justify the Holocaust.