Daily News (Egypt): Historic strike by university staff sees huge support
University professors staged simultaneous protests and refrained from teaching all over Egypt.
CAIRO: Professors throughout Egypt went on strike Sunday to renew demands for better pay and working conditions.
Simultaneous protests were held at 1 pm outside university administrative buildings. Some 200 university professors attended the protest at Cairo University.
According to Dr Mohamed Abul Ghar, a member of the University Autonomy Group (popularly known as the March 9 Movement, a group of Cairo University professors who came together in March 2003 to protest the US invasion of Iraq and who now press for university autonomy and academic freedom) there was a high strike turnout in three of Cairo University’s faculties.
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