Wikipedia Has issues With Dubai and Egypt - http://clapway.com/2016/01/11/wikipedia-has-issues-with-dubai-and-egypt-123/

Arabic Wikipedia has seen a significant decline in growth due to lower broadband penetration and regional instability, which is a problem for places like Dubai and Egypt. That added to the lack of source material has limited the amount of Arabic language articles available on the website.

Arabic Wikipedia Has Over 400,000 Entries, But It is Not Enough

The project to bring in Arabic Wikipedia is technically a successful one. However, the platform still is not satisfied with the amount of articles considering the number of people who speak Arabic worldwide. Persian Wikipedia, for example, has 20% more entries than the Arabic version. That’s considering that there are 6 times more people speaking Arabic than there are Persian.

There are also some technological issues involved. Several Arabic-speaking regions have lower levels of literacy and lower broadband penetration. This means that there are less materials being translated to Arabic. The decline has been more significant in recent years.

Egypt and Dubai Have Stories That Need to Be Told

Editors have to find good sources to make good entries. Having more entries available in the desired language helps, hence why Wikipedia is pushing for more entries in countries like Dubai and Egypt. Wikipedia is looking to raise awareness of this shortage of material. Most notably, the United Arab Emirates. These countries allow pervasive internet filtering. Certain police bodies, like in Dubai, consider pervasive internet filtering punishable by law. These countries are hostile against the use of VPN technology.

Internet Filtering in Dubai, Egypt and the Arabic Region

Regulators and police are very adamant about internet filtering rules. These are people who don’t understand the internet, so they have no problem enforcing laws against is spread. However, there is hope for Arabic content in the region. The spread of the Arabic language has become a positive in terms of avoiding censorship. Hopefully, as time progresses, these internet filtering regulations can be lifted.

Countries like Egypt, where turmoil lurks at every corner, need Wikipedia to share their history. Wikipedia is a great outlet for political dissent, and it can be used for the better if these regulations are lifted. Until then, Wikipedia can do little more than raise awareness for the lack of content, and encourage people to write history on their platform.

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Wikipedia Has issues With Dubai and Egypt

The largest #naturalgas reserve to date was just discovered in the #coastline of #Egypt. - http://clapway.com/2015/08/30/giant-natural-gas-reserve-egypt-coast-101/

MAGNUM-SIZE NATUAL GAS RESERVE DISCOVERED

It’s possible that the largest natural gas reserve to date was just discovered in the coastline of Egypt. It was reported today that the Italian company Eni SnA, has discovered an area of 1,450m (4,757ft) in the deep waters of the Egyptian coast, and the total area is of about 60 sq miles. With these numbers, the reserve may hold as much as 30 trillion cubic ft of gas, or similarly, 5.5 billion barrels of the same. The field, named Zohr, could may well become one of the largest natural gas finds, and could help meet the region’s need for natural gas for decades to come.

The CEO, Claudio Descalzi, commented on the discovery by saying that the area could become “one of the world’s largest natural gas fields”, and that “this historic discovery will be able to transform the energy scenario of Egypt.” The company, the largest foreign energy firm in all of Africa, holds full concession rights to the reserve after signing an energy exploration deal with Egypt’s oil ministry. The deal was worth $2bn, and allowed Eni to explore the Sinai, the Gulf of Suez, the Mediterranean sea and parts of the Nile Delta, all very vast and very rich areas where great discoveries are made and have yet to be made, not only by the company but by others as well and in other countries.

WHAT DOES THIS NATURAL GAS MEAN FOR EGYPT?

The reserve, described as “supergiant”, proves that Egypt still has great potential in terms of energy and the development of the same. Descalzi said in a statement that “important synergies with the existing infrastructures can be exploited”, which would allow a fast production startup. The company has been in the country since 1954, through one of it’s subsidiaries, IEOC (International Egyptian Oil Company), and it is the main producer of hydrocarbon in Egypt. Their daily equity production is of 200,000 barrels of oil, according to the company.

COULD THERE BE MORE HIDDEN RESERVES LIKE THIS?

This discovery could mean that there are still great basins of natural gas left to be found in our oceans, but this should not encourage a careless search for it. This may well be the largest basin yet, and it has jump-started a plethora of movements, some searching for more energy to give to their respective regions, others interested in discovering more ways to find and preserve our natural resources.

A full statement by Eni about this discovery can be found here.

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Giant Natural Gas Reserve Found in Egyptian Coast

U.K.: Egypt Major Gateway for Prehistoric Human Migration - http://clapway.com/2015/05/29/u-k-egypt-major-gateway-for-prehistoric-human-migration-123/

While most scientists agree that mankind originated in Africa, there has been much discussion over the years as to what route they took out of Africa to expand and travel via prehistoric human migration.

Egypt Major Thoroughfare for Leaving Africa

Now, genetic information from prehistoric humans shows that Egypt was a major gateway for prehistoric human migration and travel into the rest of the world. So says a study done by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger and the University of Cambridge by analyzing the genome of modern populations of humans living in Egypt and Ethiopia.

The scientists used the genetic data from six groups of modern humans from Northeastern Africa. The test subjects were 100 Egyptians and 5 Ethiopian groups of 25 people in each group.

Two Probable Routes Were Used For Prehistoric Human Migration

The scientists determined that while they are positive that the prehistoric humans began in Africa, there are two probable routes that were likely used for travel out of Africa, and the migrating humans chose these routes about 60,000 years ago. There were two prehistoric human migration routes to choose from. One route went through Egypt and Sinai in a northern direction and the other choice was to go through Ethiopia, via the Bab el Mandeb strait and Arabian Peninsula, which is to the south.

The genetic testing and study ended up revealing a closer genetic likeness between the Egyptian and Eurasian peoples than there was seen between the Ethiopian peoples and the Eurasians. This showed that the majority of prehistoric humans preferred to travel the northern route out of Africa.

Pre Human Migration Findings Fill In Part of the Evolutionary Puzzle

The researchers’ findings, which are now printed in the American Journal of Human Genetics, help to fill in part of the evolutionary puzzle of mankind’s past. The data can also be used to help put together a public catalogue of the diversity of the genome for Ethiopian and Egyptian peoples, which could help with medical or anthropological research in the future.

Most scientists today agree that once prehistoric humans evolved into the first examples of more modern humans that they started their migration out of Africa. It is thought that they may have used land bridges or rafts to get across oceans. In addition, fossils have proven that the Neanderthals were already in the areas where the pre-human migration was taking place.

U.K.: Egypt Major Gateway for Prehistoric Human Migration