Egypt and Greece carried out military exercises in the Northern Fleet in the Mediterranean to counter potential threats on their maritime borders amid tensions with Turkey.
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Dig into the foundations of any language and you ll find quite a few words rooted in body parts.
In English, for instance, the word language itself is a descendent of the Latin word lingua , which means tongue, and the word sarcasm can be traced back to the Greek word sarkazein , meaning “to bite the lip in rage .
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Every language has a mass of words which
By Pearl Markovitz | January 28, 2021
Teaneck’s Rinat Yisrael recently featured Professor Eve Krakowski, assistant professor of medieval Jewish History at Princeton, in a discussion of a controversial Maimonidean edict found among the thousands of rediscovered documents from the 1,000-year-old Cairo Genizah.
At the suggestion of her son Yitz, a Ph.D. student in the department of religion at Princeton University, Rinat’s Adult Education Chair Faye Landes was directed to award-winning filmmaker Michelle Paymar, whose recent documentary “From Cairo to the Cloud” provides the extraordinary story of the journey of the Cairo Genizah from medieval Cairo to our home computers via the cloud. The screening of the film will take place on Motzei Shabbat, January 31 at 8 p.m..
SHARE It was November 2012 – nearly two years after the eruption of mass protests on January 25, 2011 that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Soraya Bahgat planned to go to Tahrir Square to demonstrate against his successor, Mohamed Morsi, but changed her mind when she saw footage of a mob of men assaulting a woman, tearing off her clothes.
She took action in the only way she felt she could. She started a Twitter account called Tahrir Bodyguard and hundreds of volunteers answered the call to protect female protesters.
Fast-forward to July 2020 when university student Nadine Abdel Hamid took to Instagram and Facebook to warn women about sexual predator Ahmed Bassam Zaki. Her post led to the creation of the Assault Police Instagram account, which encouraged others to share their experiences, a movement the media called Egypt’s #MeToo.
Campaign prompted by allegations against Ahmed Bassam Zaki revealed other shocking sexual harassment cases
Egyptian protesters hold up placards and shout slogans during a demonstration in Cairo against sexual harassment on 12 February 2013 (AFP) By Published date: 29 December 2020 16:52 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced a former student to three years in prison for sexually harassing two young women, in a case that triggered a MeToo campaign in Egypt earlier this year. No means no : Egyptian campaign sparks debate about rape and consentRead More »
Ahmed Bassam Zaki, a former student at the American University of Cairo, was found guilty by the economic court, which tries cyber crimes, of sexually harassing two girls over the phone, sending sexual photos to one of them and repeatedly contacting the other without her consent, a judicial source told AFP.