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MISC
 Crowds surround Hussein mosque for the mulid...

Director Youssef Chahine is in a coma...

Why isn't anyone marketing Souq Fustat?

The Minister says.... Public universities will start applying international education quality standards as of July...

Tough stance... Cracking down on urfi marriages...

Faithful analysis... LA Times points to a new fatwa urging less prayer, more work... Meanwhile, BBC looks at the "zebiba"...

Global power... Big changes in the legal environment surrounding Egyptian tourism...

Bad situation... AFP: one in 10 Egyptian children is forced into work.

New twist... Islamic ruling that Egypt should give some of its oil and gas wealth to the people...

Hospitality dispute... New no alcohol policy might mean fewer stars for luxury hotel...

Another update on the Egyptian students in trouble in the US..

New tactic... "Starting Aug. 1, cigarette labels will be required to carry images of the effects of smoking: a dying man in an oxygen mask, a coughing child, and a limp cigarette symbolizing impotence..."

Successful leg operation for Pope Shenouda in the US... Earlier: After a fall... Leader of the Coptic church flown for treatment in United States...

Banning a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl

Pop stats... Three babies born every minute... Earlier: Not that crowded yet... Population could more than double to reach 160 million by 2050...

Mustafa Khalil, a former Egyptian prime minister who helped negotiate the 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, has died...

Relationship management... Oxford has details on where the gold mining industry needs to go...

Cross-cultural connections... Local lessons to be learned by reading To Kill a Mockingbird?

Newspaper takes "unusual step of publishing what it calls "visual proof" that the president pays his taxes just like everyone else."

Links and more links... Maine parliamentarian coming to Egypt to talk about a paperless assembly...

Bad burst... Luxor: a fire broke out among gas canisters in a warehouse for hot air balloons...

One Muslim man was killed and four Coptic Christians, including two monks, injured when a land dispute involving