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Sofia the Robot is in the House!

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2 years ago

April 18, 2018

Egyptians met the talking robot Sofia in person at the first day of Creative Industry summit. The 8^th and biggest edition of the Creative Industry summit was launched on Tuesday April 17^th and lasts for two days. Impressively the summit had gathered the greatest minds internationally, locally, and robotically!

Everyone was head over heels for meeting the famous talking robot Sofia. First Sofia was interviewed by renowned TV Presenter Osama Kamal, then it got engaged in various conversations and took many selfies! Sofia’s presence opened discussion on Artificial Intelligence in how it’s excelling rapidly and how much potentials it has in the future. (Sofia is expected to be interviewed by the famous Abla Fahita on the second day of the summit).

This years’ summit main topic revolved around content. Many outstanding speakers took the stand at the summit such as Eng. Naguib Sawiris, Executive Chairman at Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding; Dana Griffin, founder of INNRDesign; a number of influential social media gurus like Abdel Hamid Abdallah (Icon Creations), Mohammed El Bassiouny ( Tayarah), Omar Osman, The App concept), and Ramy Kandil (HUG Digital).

One of the Main panel discussions received the heads behind Egyptian Media “Kitchen” including Alaa ALkahky (Chairman at Group A), Hany Osama (Founder of The Producers) , Hesham Soliman ( Network President at DMC), Manar El Amin ( Chief Commercial Officer at CBC), Mohammed Hefzy (Founder of Film Clinic). The panel discussed” TV content and Broadcast Industry: Caution – Turbulance Ahead!” and was moderated by media Guru Amr Qoura.

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Egypt’s largest Metro Station in The Middle East Inaugurated

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2 days ago

October 20, 2019

Yara K

Heliopolis metro station, Egypt’s largest station in the Middle East, has been inaugurated this morning and is ready to receive commuters.

The station is built on a space of 10,000 square metre which makes it the biggest station in the Middle East region, according to the transportation ministry

The construction of the station has began back in 2015 and the station will connect to Cairo International Airport and Al-Salam city.

The new metro station will help reduce around two million commutes above ground, which in return will reduce the traffic congestion. Also, citizens will save the cost of more expensive mean of transportation.

Another point worth mentioning is that the station will include automated machines to purchase tickets directly, in addition to a digital signage system to guide passengers.

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El-Sisi Returns Home Following His Participation in UNGA

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4 weeks ago

September 27, 2019

Yara K

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi returned to Cairo this morning following his participation in the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

Earlier today, Bassam Rady the presidential spokesman posted several pictures of the president upon his arrival to the airport and being greeted by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, the Defense Minister General Mohamed Zaki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Ali Abdel-Aal, and the Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik, alongside other senior officials.

Pictures also show a number of citizens who were present in the airport and gathered to welcome back El-Sisi to his homeland.

During the President’s visit to the U.S., a number of meetings were held with his counterparts and UN officials in order to discuss means of developing cooperation between the two countries, in addition to tackling issues of common interest.

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Egypt to Establish Fourth Terminal at Cairo International Airport

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1 month ago

September 15, 2019

Yara K

The Egyptian government announced its plan on building a fourth terminal at Cairo International Airport after reaching an estimated capacity of 75% this year.

The Cairo Airport Company, the operating organization of the airport, has already drawn up the needed studies to build the terminal which hopes to increase the capacity and reduce the traffic on the other three terminals, chair Ahmed Fawzy said in a statement on Friday.

Besides the new terminal, Fawzy revealed a series of development projects that will take place as well, including an upgrade to Terminal 1 and updates to the airport’s baggage handling system.