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Sunday, 29 August 2021

The Gezira club pet cemetery is in the news

It is very much a mixed bag in the weekend headlines:

  • Refugee crisis continues: More than 600 Egyptians and Moroccans landed on Italy’s Lampedusa Saturday, having come by boat from Libya. (Arab News)
  • Greco-Roman town unearthed: A residential and commercial town dating to the Greco-Roman period has been unearthed by an Egyptian Archaeological team near Alexandria. (Xinhua | Daily Mail)
  • Egypt is an “Ultimate Guy Trip,” according to Men’s Health, the US edition of which gives a shout out to Ain Sokhna for its scuba diving, kite surfing and beaches.
  • Pet cemetery: Cairo’s only known pet cemetery at the Gezira club is an out of the way plot paying tribute to furry friends (The National)
  • From the archives: The Guardian took us back to 27 August, 1936 when Nahas Pasha and Anthony Eden signed the historic Anglo-Egyptian treaty, under which the UK agreed to withdraw its troops from Egypt.

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