December 11, 2019
تحليل: رانيا المالكي في حين أن آخر الإحصائيات الحكومية اللتي صدرت في وقت سابق من هذا العام تظهر أن قطاع السياحة في مصر يساهم حاليا ب ١١،٣٪ من الناتج المحلي الإجمالي ويأتي ب ١٤،٤٪ من عائدات العملة الأجنبية، شهد القطاع تراجع رهيب عموما. وأظهرت بيانات حكومية نشرت في أبريل ٢٠١٤ أن عائدات السياحة انخفضت ٤٣٪ الى ١،٣ مليار دولار في الربع الأول من ٢٠١٤ وحده. نظرة على البيانات على مدى السنوات العشر الماضية يسلط الضوء على انخفاض كبير شهد منذ عام ٢٠١٠ عندما زار أكثر من ١٤،٧ مليون سائح مصر. شهد القطاع السياحي هبوط حاد الي ٩،٨ مليون سائح بعد…
BY RANIA AL MALKY – : As the Israeli Defense Forces continue to pound residential areas, including a hospital in Gaza for the fifteenth day, Hamas has raked in the highest IDF death toll in the third major offensive on the Gaza Strip in six years – Operation Protective Edge. While in November 2012 during Operation Pillar Defense only six IDF soldiers were killed and before that in 2008-9 in the 22-day Operation Cast Lead only 13 Israelis we killed, this year during 15 days of fighting Hama has successfully targeted 26 soldiers with only 2 civilians killed in the…
بقلم رانيا المالكي حين تجمع مئات الآلاف من المصريين في ميدان التحرير وحول قصر الإتحادية في ٣٠ يونيو ٢٠١٣ كان للعديد منهم مظالم حقيقية ضد ادارة الرئيس مرسي طالبت الحشود بحل مجلس الوزراء واجراء انتخابات رئاسية مبكرة. ولكن في ٣ يوليو، أدلى وزير الدفاع عبد الفتاح السيسي بمطالبه الخاصة جمد الدستور الجديد الذي استفتي فيه الشعب في شهر ديسمبر ٢٠١٢ خطف أول رئيس مصري منتخب نصب رئيس ومجلس وزراء غير شرعيين وبذلك بدأ مسلسل من الدموية والظلم لم ينتهي حتى اليوم و في ٨ يونيو ٢٠١٤ “فاز” السيسي في انتخابات رئاسيةة طوال العام الماضي الذي كان يوصف زورا بأنه “تصحيح…
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Recently Egypt Monocle had a few technical issues related to hosting and security that needed fixing. For that we turned to a well known company in Web Development and design, El Motaheda Web. El Motaheda was able to fix and secure our web site and help us with the hosting. Se we thought why not ask Ehab Heikal who is its CEO for more information about the Web Design industry in Egypt. Q-Is Egypt as advanced as the rest of the world when it comes to web design and development? A-Well in my opinion Egypt has a lot of good developers,…
BY NAEL M. SHAMA Cairo – The military funeral of 25 policemen who were massacred in cold blood in Sinai last month was intensely touching. The slow, dignified procession, the sad funeral dirge, the anguish of the mothers of the fallen and the tears of mourners exuded an overwhelming sense of grief. Funerals are always poignant and gloomy. They remind us of the brevity of life, the inevitability of death and the fragility of our souls. Some funerals also help us capture the immense capacity of the living to inflict injustice and death. Men are all equal in death, differences…
BY DEENA DOUARA Cairo – I think, perhaps, amid all the emotion, one can make a calculated decision on where to stand on the violence in Egypt. I understand both arguments. Security forces are massacring mostly peaceful demonstrators with impunity, ushering in the type of force we sought to overthrow in 2011, the type of brutality we despised for years, that made martyrs of young faces now rendered across Tahrir Square. Or, Morsi supporters are being dealt with after firing first, attacking police stations and churches, threatening to “burn” Egypt. They are terrorists seeking to rip apart — both literally…
BY CHITRA KALYANI Colombia – Somewhere in the streets of Cartagena in Colombia, you will encounter a performer at a pavement appearing to float in mid-air. You look at him in astonishment, and it takes you many minutes to figure out his trick. The Carribean city is setting up another kind of magic at the film festival, where you are listening to the director who surprised himself by making it big with Amores Perros. “Sometimes bad films make me happy. I am not ashamed of that.” If Alejandro Iñárritu can say that, surely you can too. “Ciudad Delirio” makes me happy. The…
BY DALIA BASIOUNY Cairo – In it’s fifth edition the plays and dance pieces presented at the 2 Be Continued Theatre and Contemporary Dance laboratory festival at Falaky Theatre last week appeared to be unrelated, but in fact they all shared a common thread of defeat, suffering, control, and futility. The evening starts with “A Room Filled with Smoke” choreographed by Mounir Said. This two-person dance piece is beautifully executed in a very well-designed set. Grey colors, scattered clothes, and unfinished wall paint create an ominous impression that is deepened by the eerie music performed live on stage. This murky…
CAIRO BY DALIA BASIOUNY Devotees of Egyptian poet and songwriter Ahmed Fouad Negm held a memorial for him at the Cairo Opera House last week, which morphed into an emotional affirmation by the audience that the “revolution continues”. Negm’s poems and Sheikh Imam’s music have been the voice of rebellion in Egypt for decades and appropriately became a true expression of the Jan. 25 revolution. The songs they wrote more than 30 years ago, were so befitting for contemporary Egypt, reflecting the current revolutionary situation so much so that activists used them as chants in demonstrations. People called Negm “the…
BY LEYLA DOSS Cairo – “Pursue your Passion,” reads a banner in bright rainbow colours as it welcomes guests into a small garden filled with luscious trees and cushioned wooden chairs. The Workshop, a cultural center established last October in Cairo’s Maadi district, offers workshops and practical training to broaden your horizons. “As a writer, I have always loved arts and culture, but constantly felt that there is an absence of high quality skills in Egypt,” says Rasha Abo El-Soud, one of the founders. “Many are taught to pursue financial stability over their interests.” Abo El-Soud believes that The Workshops…