Every country has a different policy in regard to its antiquities and whether they should be returned to the country from which they originated. For example, the government of the Netherlands suggests that looted art should be returned to former
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Egyptian Bill Hurts Women’s Status
By Family Law
From Financial Times:Opponents complain the draft bill, which seeks to consolidate disparate pieces of family legislation passed over the years, retains provisions treating women as legal minors, whose authority over their children and in some cases, their own lives, remains…
Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification
Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt of the University of Copenhagan was able to reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians using a manual discovered in a 3,500-year-old papyrus. The manual used by Schiødt is the oldest surviving manual on mummification…
Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification
New Fatwa on Inter-Faith Marriage
By Family Law
From Al-Monitor:An Islamic scholar has stirred up major debates by backing the marriage of Muslim women and non-Muslim men, an issue always dealt with nervously by the religious establishment and pro-establishment scholars.Amna Nosier, a professor of Islamic philosophy at Al-Azhar…
Egyptian Court Bans Pilgrimages To Rabbi’s Grave
Al-Monitor reports that on Sept. 26, Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court upheld a lower court ruling banning the annual celebration in Damatyuh village near the city of Damanhur in Beheira governorate of the birth of Rabbi Yaqoub bin Masoud, known as…
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
By Family Law
From CNN:
Stay in Cairo with family or catch the last flight to Canada to be with my love. I needed to decide quickly but feared that traveling during this pandemic was the equivalent of suicide, or worse, murder.
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WRC-19 and the Process for International Spectrum Decisions
Roughly every four years, representatives of most of the 190+ member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) meet for four weeks at a World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) to consider changes to the allocations and regulations governing the international use…
The 10 Biggest Archaeology Discoveries of 2019 | Live Science
A Bronze Age "megalopolis" in Israel, a "cachette of the priests" near Luxor, Egypt, and a massive ancient wall in western Iran are just a few of the many incredible archaeological stories that came to light in 2019. Here, Live…
WRC-19 Revamps ITU Radio Regulations to Accommodate Emerging Communications Technologies
By Tony Lin & George John
Communications technologies often evolve more quickly than the regulatory frameworks governing them. To keep pace, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) revisits the ITU’s Radio Regulations governing radiofrequency spectrum use approximately every four years to accommodate new…