Happy Mother’s Day 2021 from Egyptian Chronicles to all the mothers around the globe especially in Egypt and the Arab world.
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| To Dear Mother Greetings from Egypt |
An old colonial “Mother Day Card from Egypt” I found on Alexandria 1900 Facebook page.
Special Happy Mother's Day to activist Laila Soueif.
Another monthly post as part of the COVID-19 coverage in Egyptian Chronicles.
This time it is a quick look into COVID-19 numbers in Egypt after thirteen months since its arrival to the country in February 2020. Yes, it has been a year.
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| Chosen as the best "coronavirus related photo in Egypt for 2020" by Egyptian journalists syndicate's photographers sect "Ayman Aref" |
This is an interactive graph. You can see each year and month by clicking on the tabs.
And the time comes again a new live updates post for 15 days to cover everything coronavirus as much as we can.
The mass vaccination in Egypt continues but in a very slow phase.
There are not many people registering on the website launched by the Ministry of Health and it is a problem the officials are speaking about publicly.
It is a problem and it has several reasons.
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| ِAn Egyptian lady receiving her first dose of the vaccine in Cairo "Adel Eissa" |
We need more campaigns targeting those people.
Another reason: The God damned bloody conspiracy theories.
I thought that the conspiracy theories were not that effective till I know that in working classes bloody WhatsApp messages are being shared warning about the vaccines and how they will round people in streets to be vaccinated !!
Another reason: Some people do not want the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine and want the AstraZeneca vaccine but Egypt has not got enough jabs yet from either vaccine.
Another new reason: Some people do not want the Chinese vaccine nor the AstraZeneca vaccine especially after its suspension in seven countries :((
It is madness
Now, here is our live update below for another 15 days.
This is the time of our monthly post about the coronavirus pandemic and its numbers in graphs.
After January 2021 witnessed a decline in the number of coronavirus cases officially in Egypt, February 2021 witnessed officially a steady increase in the numbers released by the Ministry of health, which I depend upon here.
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| Egyptian Doctors wearing the PPE "Reuters" |
Unofficially, doctors began to speak that we began the third wave of coronavirus in Mid February.
February witnessed the mass vaccination of health care workers which started in late January.
It started with the Sinopharm vaccine and then AstraZeneca but it is moving slowly.
I would like to hint out that according to Minister of Health Hala Zayed in early January, the official numbers of cases represent between 10%-15% of the real number of cases.
Now to the graphs of February numbers.
First, the daily cases of coronavirus in Egypt.
First Happy New International Women’s Day to all the fantastic ladies all over the world
Second, I do not know how we celebrate the IWD 2021 and speak about Women’s Empowerment in Egypt on any level when we are on the verge of having a new Personal Status Law that will be a huge setback to Women’s empowerment in Egypt.
Last week, we knew that among the new draft laws the House of Representatives will discuss and supposedly pass it soon is the new Personal status draft law which was drafted by the Egyptian government.
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| The new personal status law on the occasion of IWD 2021 by Doaa Al Adl |
Youm 7 website reportedly published a copy of that draft law before removing it according to the women’s rights advocates who took a copy from that draft law.
According to them, it is disastrous for women and a huge setback to women’s empowerment in Egypt.
One of the major points that they raised that this law or those amendments technically cancels the woman’s legal capacity in the first place.
Despite it gives women the right to marry by themselves, it allegedly enables any male “guardian” in the woman’s family to annul or to divorce her.
One of the proposed articles strips mothers from financial guardianship or conservatorship over their minor children giving it to men in the family. I do not know what to say.
Earlier Saturday, Pope Francis held a meeting in Najaf Al-Ashraf with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on the second day of his visit to Iraq.
It is the first meeting of its kind between the head of the Catholic Church and a Muslim Shia grand Ayatollah or Marja in the size of al-Sistani.
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| Ayatollah al-Sistani and Pope France at his place in Al-Najaf , Iraq |
The meeting and the visit to Iraq itself represented another way of how the Catholic Church is open to interfaith dialogue internationally under the leadership of Pope Frances.
For the first time in history, the Pope visits Iraq aka the cradle of the civilizations as well as the place believed by Jews, Christians and Muslims to be the birthplace of Prophet Abraham “PBUH".
Now to my two Egyptian piasters, the meeting between Ayatollah al-Sistani and Pope Frances is not the truly historical fruitful meeting that would push things forwards in the interfaith dialogue I am looking forward
The true historical meeting I am waiting to see in my lifetime and hopefully will “definitely” play a role in easing the sectarian tensions in the Middle East is the meeting between Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb, The Grand Emam of Al-Azhar and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf Al-Sharaf.
You are damned right !! I want Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb of Egypt’s Al-Azhar to visit Al-Najaf Al-Sharaf, the Shia holy city and to sit with al-Sistani.
And the time comes again a new live updates post for 15 days to cover everything coronavirus as much as we can.
This time we start our post with the month of March.
This month will witness the start of the mass vaccination in Egypt after the launch of the ministry of health website to register for the vaccination.
Currently, it is targeting three segments: The healthcare workers, the chronic disease patients and the elderly.
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| A healthcare worker vaccinated as part of the Egyptian Health Ministry's the campaign last week "Egyptian Health Ministry" |
I highly recommend that you register your parents and your elderly if you are in Egypt.
Unfortunately, you can not access it abroad.
Now, here is our live update below.