Egypt

U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse
Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:13pm EST

By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.

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Hi Every body
I am senior Procurement Engineer from Egypt ,with B.Sc. of Mechanical Engineering and 5 years experience in multinational co in Egypt
QAPCO invited me for personal interview in Qatar
i need any information about this kind of interviews and
If I joined QAPCO in the same position, What is the expected salary range and scale
I appreciate your advice

Rumours are rife that Gamal Mubarak, son of the Egyptian president and husband to a glamourous wife is set to become Egypt’s next leader.

Now , Egypt is a democratic country. So, how will this go down ?

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure (a US organization) is holding a conference on breast cancer awareness in Alexandria, Egypt this week. But the Israeli doctors and cancer researchers who had been already received invitations and gotten permission to attend suddenly had their inviations rescinded by the Egyptian government.

Seeing as Susan G. Komen herself was a Jew, and that this conference is being sponsored by a US organization (and in the US, you cannot bar/refuse someone from attending a conference based upon their religion), it seems kind of ironic to me that they're continuing with the conference in light of this move.

I need a favor, i need to send some medicines with him.

GARLIC

gar'-lik (shum, used only in plural shumim; compare Arabic thum): One of the delights of Egypt for which the Israelites in the Wilderness longed; we know from other sources that, though originally a product of Central Asia, garlic was known to the ancient Egyptians.

It is the bulb of Allium sativum, Natural Order Liliaceae, and is cultivated all over the Orient.
It is eaten cooked in stews; its disagreeable penetrating odor is in evidence in the houses and on the breath of most Orientals.
A bulb of garlic, hung over a bed or over the door of a house, is a powerful charm against the evil eye and other malign influences.

source:E. W. G. Masterman
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