Thursday, January 8, 2009

Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is the journalist for the Middle East section of The Independent. He's articles are what society needs. He has a strong opinion about what goes on in the Middle East and writes very straight forward articals. He makes people see what everyone is trying to hide. Reading his article gives you a very different view of understanding things. He disagrees with what is happening in Gaza and especially what the Israel's are doing to the Palestinians.

Their is always a place where we call home, a place that we belong too. For many people it’s the country that they have grown up in for many years that is home for them. Even when the day comes and they have to leave it for a while, it hard from them to forget it and they always feel like they can’t wait to go home, to where they really belong in the world. My story is a little different then everyone else. My parents are Egyptians and moved to Canada when they got married and lived there for about 22 years. I was born and lived most of my life their expect for one day out of the blue I was told that we are going to move to Egypt and leave Toronto my home town. It was a shock for me and 5 years later I feel like I’m so far away from home. I miss the people that I grow up with and the places that I knew, friends, teachers, even my own room that looks out on a park. My memories of Canada will never be forgotten, my heart and mind knows that there’s no place like home.

My group and I have done a research on ACU and I have reached to this conclusion. Hopefully, after reading everything, that you have got a good overall idea about the prose and cont in ACU. We feel that there are many issues that we have discussed that could be easily changed not only for the benefit of the students, but also for the reputation of ACU. Some of the changes are simply giving students their right to have a voice and that will affect the overall attitudes for both sides toward education in ACU. We see and believe that there is a strong future for ACU, but changes must happen and only until then we will see a university that is respected, talked about, and every student dreamed to be part of, and that is something that is in the power of your hand. We worked hard, learned a lot, experienced a lot, and really hope that this hard work of ours is put to use. Let's make Ahram Canadian University be number one. If that is our number one goal, so we will achieve it. ACU deserves to be the best and hopefully it will.

A Cairo family court gave Christian mother custody of her nine-year-old son after her ex-husband had converted to Islam and filed a custody claim.
Judge Khalil Mostafa based the Dec. 28 ruling on the recently amended child law.
The husband had converted to Islam two years ago. This facilitated the father’s custody claim since legally children must follow their father’s religion.
Mother custody over kids until they are 18, but when they reach 15, they are allowed to choose which parent they prefer to live with.

The Egyptian state administrative court on Tuesday ordered the implementation of a previous ruling halting the exports of Egyptian natural gas to Israel at prices lower than that of international market.
The case was brought by former diplomat Ibrahim Yousry, who is the lawyer representing the Popular Campaign against the Export of Egyptian Gas to Israel. The suit aimed to cancel the decision of the Minister of Petroleum to export gas to Israel and to "protect the resources of the country," a campaign statement read.
The campaign believes that Egypt's natural gas would be better appropriated in local consumption. And now under the verdict, the government is obliged to stop exporting gas to Israel in Lower price.

Malaysia’s Proton auto brand may soon get labeled “Made in Egypt” after Egypt’s trade minister said company executives were mulling over establishing a car assembly plant in Egypt.
Rachid, who met with executives from Malaysia’s national carmaker Proton Holdings, said the company was eyeing an Egyptian partner to establish a car assembly line as well as develop an Egyptian state-run auto company to manufacture Proton cars in Egypt.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Egypt's foreign minister said Thursday that Hamas must ensure rocket fire stops in any truce deal to halt Israel's assault on theGaza Strip, criticizing the Palestinian militants for giving Israel an excuse to launch the bombardment.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit's comments came as Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Egypt's president, part of a tour by the Turkish leader to work out an Egyptian-Turkish initiative to end the violence.
The initiative calls for a halt to Israel's assault, a return to a Hamas-Israel truce and an international mechanism to ensure the opening of Gaza's border crossings.

Friday, January 2, 2009

When I heard about that news of how the public hospital kept Shaban Abd Harem in prohibition, after the hospital looked through this things and called the police while he was in a his hospital bad because they found hash in this coat. A lot of questions came into my mind. I asked myself does the hospital has the right to report any case to the police and if they have the right does it normal and ethical to do so or not.

I found that governmental hospital follow the government authorities even though a hospital is not a place for government.

It is ridiculous to know that patients' lives come second, and interfering with their privacy is number one target. Hospitals save lives, but in Egypt public hospitals find crimes, to every family who has to live this nightmare and deal with massed up rules that the government puts them in, I am deeply sorry, but welcome to the public hospital in Egypt.

I don't see public hospital being changed until the Egyptian government changes or at least realize that a hospital is a hospital not a police station. Hopefully articles like this and many more will be heard out, understood, and make a difference.

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