{"id":1072,"date":"2006-06-28T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2006-06-28T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T02:48:16","slug":"2006-6-28-how-to-pass-your-exams-in-egypt-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"How to pass your exams in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Brian Whitaker posted on the Guardian&#8217;s blog an article on <a title=\"High school student fails exam for criticizing US policies\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/24\/high-school-student-fails-exam-for-criticizing-us-policies\/\">Alaa Farag Megahed<\/a>, the high school student who failed her exam because of a composition she wrote critical of Bush.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How to pass your exams in Egypt<\/strong><br \/>Brian Whitaker, June 27, 2006 11:13 AM<br \/>&#8220;Blessed with abundant supplies of water, fertile soil and a flourishing tourism sector, Egypt has fewer economic problems than most countries in the Middle East. Under the wise leadership of President Hosni Mubarak, its prosperity has increased beyond all expectation &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>Yes, I know, it&#8217;s rubbish. But if you&#8217;re an Egyptian student and happen to get an exam question on the economic problems facing your country, this would probably be a good way to start. I mean, you do want to pass, don&#8217;t you?<br \/>According to several reports in the Arabic media, 15-year-old Alaa Farag Megahed, from a girls&#8217; secondary school in the Nile delta, got it all wrong. The examiner marking the papers didn&#8217;t like her essay and passed it to his boss, who passed it to the ministry of education.<a title=\"How to pass your exams in Egypt?\" href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/brian_whitaker\/2006\/06\/how_to_pass_your_exams_in_egyp.html\"> (Full article)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, the Arab Press Freedom Watch issued statement calling for a &#8220;<a title=\"Statement-Stand against the Killing of Free Thinking in Egyptian Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apfw.org\/indexenglish.asp?txtSearchText=xxxx%20or%20egypt*%20or%20cairo*\">stand against the killing of free thinking in Egyptian schools<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Brian Whitaker posted on the Guardian&#8217;s blog an article on <a title=\"High school student fails exam for criticizing US policies\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/24\/high-school-student-fails-exam-for-criticizing-us-policies\/\">Alaa Farag Megahed<\/a>, the high school student who failed her exam because of a composition she wrote critical of Bush.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How to pass your exams in Egypt<\/strong><br \/>\nBrian Whitaker, June 27, 2006 11:13 AM<br \/>\n&#8220;Blessed with abundant supplies of water, fertile soil and a flourishing tourism sector, Egypt has fewer economic problems than most countries in the Middle East. Under the wise leadership of President Hosni Mubarak, its prosperity has increased beyond all expectation &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nYes, I know, it&#8217;s rubbish. But if you&#8217;re an Egyptian student and happen to get an exam question on the economic problems facing your country, this would probably be a good way to start. I mean, you do want to pass, don&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nAccording to several reports in the Arabic media, 15-year-old Alaa Farag Megahed, from a girls&#8217; secondary school in the Nile delta, got it all wrong. The examiner marking the papers didn&#8217;t like her essay and passed it to his boss, who passed it to the ministry of education.<a title=\"How to pass your exams in Egypt?\" href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/brian_whitaker\/2006\/06\/how_to_pass_your_exams_in_egyp.html\"> (Full article)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, the Arab Press Freedom Watch issued statement calling for a &#8220;<a title=\"Statement-Stand against the Killing of Free Thinking in Egyptian Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apfw.org\/indexenglish.asp?txtSearchText=xxxx%20or%20egypt*%20or%20cairo*\">stand against the killing of free thinking in Egyptian schools<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}