Monday, January 31, 2011

Hundreds of American Students Lie Low in Cairo

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

By Ursula Lindsey and Aisha Labi

Cairo

Universities in Egypt were closed on Sunday and American institutions with students in the country were monitoring their safety while making arrangements to get them home, as antigovernment protests and sporadic outbreaks of violence continued in the capital and other cities. With airlines observing a 4 p.m.-to-8 a.m. curfew imposed by the Egyptian government, however, thousands of people trying to leave were stranded at the international airport here....
http://chronicle.com/article/Hundreds-of-American-Students/126159/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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