Abstract Following the Suez War, Israel demanded freedom of passage through Canal. By July 1957, a tacit understanding was reached in which Egypt acquiesced to Israeli goods on foreign ships. Nevertheless, March 1959, Egyptians suddenly breached agreement. The UNSG subsequently formulated new arrangement: “effective stand.” refused “play game” while refrained from military response, recognizing...

The contribution discusses Achaemenid deportation policies as exemplified by the case of Egyptians. central argument, based on readings Herodotus and Ctesias, is that aim deportations in aftermath Cambyses’ conquest country was stabilisation rule. This to be achieved transplanting a significant number notoriously rebellious makhimoi Lower Egypt, local warlords, into empire’s core region; thereb...

INTRODUCTION Models of depression that arise in the West need to be examined in other regions of the world. This study examined a set of foundational hypotheses generated by Beck's cognitive model of depression among depressed individuals in Egypt and Canada. METHOD We recruited 29 depressed and 29 non-depressed Egyptians and compared their results with those of 35 depressed and 38 non-depres...

Egypt has the highest prevalence of recorded hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide, estimated nationally at 14.7%, which is attributed to extensive iatrogenic transmission during the era of parenteral antischistosomal therapy (PAT) mass-treatment campaigns. The objective of our study was to attempt to highlight to what extent HCV transmission is ongoing and discuss the possible risk factors. We stu...

Numbers are present in every aspect of our daily lives. Whether we are making a phone call on our cell phones, calculating the waiter’s tip at dinner or counting pairs of socks to make sure none of them disappeared in the laundry the use of numbers is evident. It is easy to take them for granted considering how prevalent they are in the world today. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact numb...

BACKGROUND Prognostic markers and molecular breast cancer subtypes reflect underlying biological tumor behavior and are important for patient management. Compared to Western countries, women in North Africa are less likely to be prognosticated and treated based on well-characterized markers such as the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and Her2. We conducted this study to deter...

Background: To evaluate the role of different morphological palatal rugae patterns (palatal print) as a tool for personal identification. Method: A pilot cross-sectional study was carried out on 60 Egyptian subjects and 60 Malaysian subjects. All were above 6 years old, nonsmokers and were sharing the same dietary habits. Palatal impressions were taken from the subjects and a rugogram was issue...

Death is Not the End: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art INTRODUCTION Imagine that we have gone back thousands of years. Imagine a land with pyramids hundreds of feet high and a river that floods every year, the birth of an agricultural society. Imagine tens of thousands of people, wearing nothing but loincloths, lugging limestone after limestone through the desert. We are in ancient Egypt, a pl...

BACKGROUND The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses and the low pathogenic H9N2 viruses are enzootic in Egyptian poultry. Several cases of human infection with H5N1 were reported in Egypt. We previously determined that the seroprevalence of H5N1 antibodies in Egyptians exposed to poultry is 2.1% (15/708), suggesting that mild or subclinical infections with this virus occur. We aim to ...