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Egypt’s Nour El-Sherbini Becomes Youngest Ever New York Squash Tournament Champion
In front of a sold out crowd at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall, El-Sherbini, 20, defeated New-York raised 22-year-old Amanda Sobhy, the highest ranking American ever in the Professional Squash Association (PSA) world rankings. “Nour came out firing from the very start,” said Sobhy referring to her 20-year-old Egyptian opponent. El-Sherbini, who was born in Alexandria, is the…
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Egypt: fossils and climate change museum inaugurated
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Onassis Foundation: Scholarships for Foreigners
22ND ONASSIS FELLOWHIPS PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS 2016-2017 The Foundation announces the twenty-second (22nd) annual Program of scholarships starting on October 1st, 2016 which is addressed to non-Greeks, University Professors of all levels (Ph.D. holders), Postdoctoral Researchers and Ph.D. Candidates.Application Submission Deadline: 26th of February 2016 More information here
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Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive
[This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal.] Hala Halim’s book is a provocative and erudite study of the modern European literary discourses that have constructed Alexandria as the exemplary site of what we might call cosmopolitan desire. Following Edward Said’s critique of orientalism’s endless discursive recycling of itself, Halim…