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CairoScene
23-06-2025
- Health
- CairoScene
Statue of Dr. Magdi Yacoub Will Be Installed in Giza's Kit Kat Square
A new statue of Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub will be installed in Kit Kat Square, celebrating his contributions to cardiac surgery and decades of service to underserved communities in Egypt and beyond. Jun 23, 2025 A statue of Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, the renowned Egyptian-British heart surgeon, will soon be erected in Kit Kat Square, Giza. The initiative comes under a newly signed cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Culture and the Giza Governorate. The sculpture aims to commemorate Professor Sir Yacoub's contributions to medicine and public service, particularly his decades-long commitment to providing cardiac care to underserved communities in Egypt and abroad. The Ministry of Culture, through the Cultural Development Fund, will manage the project, overseeing artistic contracting and all technical phases. The Giza Governorate will support the project financially and ensure the square is suitably prepared to receive the statue. Born in 1935 in Belbeis, Professor Sir Yacoub rose to international prominence for his pioneering work in heart surgery and for founding several charitable heart foundations in both Egypt and the United Kingdom. The statue forms part of a broader national effort to recognise Egyptian figures whose legacies are defined by service and impact.
Sydney Morning Herald
16-06-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
These leather shoes sell for up to $600 a pair. The man who makes them is 96 years old
'Otherwise I'd get bored. I wake up and have got something in my mind, something to do — to start the machine. 'I have a feeling that if I say I stop working for my bread, I will get sick. I'm happy to work.' Twenty-five years ago, 15 Yacoub family members made up to 7000 pairs of women's shoes per week for the Diana Ferrari brand. When Ferrari's manufacturing moved overseas, Milad became a builder and his siblings opened food businesses. 'Dad told me, 'please find me some work', and so I rang around and found Parigina,' Milad said. It was a perfect fit for both parties. Yacoub's career started at age 10, in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. He didn't go to school, and to prevent him getting up to mischief, his father found him a job assisting a shoemaker. Two years later, Yacoub's mother bought him a secondhand Singer sewing machine and he opened his own shop making men's shoes. Yacoub soon employed four people and made shoes for soldiers. Customers would come from villages outside Tripoli. Loading Yacoub married Hawa in 1948 and they had six children. In 1974, the family migrated to Australia, with one married daughter staying behind. After a year renting, Yacoub bought the Essendon house where he still lives. For decades, Yacoub made shoes for brands like SPS, Aviv and Dormax, and then Diana Ferrari. He preferred to work from home and be close to his family, and so it is today. Yacoub has 24 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren. Grandson Michael says Yacoub is often seen finishing shoes late at night. Parkinson, whose father Peter owns Parigina Shoes and McCloud Shoes, is a fan of Yacoub's. 'He brings an incredible sense of care and craftsmanship to his work,' he says. 'He continues to contribute with precision and pride. His commitment and skill are nothing short of inspirational – and a testament to the enduring spirit of traditional artisanship.'
The Age
16-06-2025
- Business
- The Age
These leather shoes sell for up to $600 a pair. The man who makes them is 96 years old
'Otherwise I'd get bored. I wake up and have got something in my mind, something to do — to start the machine. 'I have a feeling that if I say I stop working for my bread, I will get sick. I'm happy to work.' Twenty-five years ago, 15 Yacoub family members made up to 7000 pairs of women's shoes per week for the Diana Ferrari brand. When Ferrari's manufacturing moved overseas, Milad became a builder and his siblings opened food businesses. 'Dad told me, 'please find me some work', and so I rang around and found Parigina,' Milad said. It was a perfect fit for both parties. Yacoub's career started at age 10, in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. He didn't go to school, and to prevent him getting up to mischief, his father found him a job assisting a shoemaker. Two years later, Yacoub's mother bought him a secondhand Singer sewing machine and he opened his own shop making men's shoes. Yacoub soon employed four people and made shoes for soldiers. Customers would come from villages outside Tripoli. Loading Yacoub married Hawa in 1948 and they had six children. In 1974, the family migrated to Australia, with one married daughter staying behind. After a year renting, Yacoub bought the Essendon house where he still lives. For decades, Yacoub made shoes for brands like SPS, Aviv and Dormax, and then Diana Ferrari. He preferred to work from home and be close to his family, and so it is today. Yacoub has 24 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren. Grandson Michael says Yacoub is often seen finishing shoes late at night. Parkinson, whose father Peter owns Parigina Shoes and McCloud Shoes, is a fan of Yacoub's. 'He brings an incredible sense of care and craftsmanship to his work,' he says. 'He continues to contribute with precision and pride. His commitment and skill are nothing short of inspirational – and a testament to the enduring spirit of traditional artisanship.'
11-06-2025
- Health
This U.S. doctor is making the move to B.C. — here's why
For one Canadian-born doctor, who has been practicing family medicine in Colorado for the last six years, his next career move is a sort of homecoming. It's been kind of a long-time dream of mine to come back to Canada, said Muthanna Yacoub. For me it's hockey and being in the hills that are basically my antidepressant. The province has been working to make it easier for U.S.-trained doctors and nurses to have their credentials recognized in B.C., a process the Ministry of Health says now takes days instead of months. After speaking to a few physician recruiters at a conference in Vancouver, Yacoub almost signed on with a clinic in Ontario, where he was born and spent part of his childhood. But it was the natural beauty of B.C. that enticed him, his wife and their dog, Hudson. WATCH | B.C. fast tracks process for U.S. health care workers: Début du widget Widget. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ? B.C. fast-tracks process for U.S. nurses to get registered in province Premier David Eby is touting the province's work recruiting U.S.-trained doctors and nurses to B.C., in an effort to address the health-care worker shortage. CBC's Katie DeRosa talked to one nurse who is starting the journey to move here. He will join a medical clinic owned by the City of Colwood, near Victoria, this fall. He wants to give back and come back home, said Health Minister Josie Osborne, during a press conference in the clinic on Friday. The clinic is trying to recruit out-of-province or out-of-country doctors to avoid poaching from other parts of B.C. Demoralized by the U.S. private health care system Yacoub had become increasingly demoralized with the U.S.'s private health care system, where insurance companies often dictate the kind of care a patient receives. Some days it really feels like you're treating the insurance company and not the patient and beckoning to their demands in spite of what's in the patient's best interest, said the 36-year-old. And so you're having to choose between your conscience and just being compliant — and most of us are kind of getting sick of it. WATCH | U.S. doctor making the move to B.C.: Début du widget Widget. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ? Canadian-born U.S. physician moves back to B.C., as province attempts to recruit doctors The province is betting big that it can recruit doctors and nurses from the U.S. to fill the gaps in B.C.'s health-care system. Katie DeRosa talks to one family doctor who is making the move from Colorado to Colwood on Vancouver Island. The biggest catalyst though, was the election of U.S. president Donald Trump and the anti-vaccine position of his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Are we going to be able to act ethically and treat patients as we really ought to, following the science? Yacoub asked. Or are we going to have to be forced into compliance? And given the administration's heavy-handed nature, we're really worried that it's going to be the latter. The B.C. government is capitalizing on that sentiment, with a $5 million ad campaign targeting health care workers in Washington State, Oregon and California. WATCH | Ad from B.C. government targets U.S. health care workers Début du widget Widget. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ? The Colwood clinic's co-medical director, Jesse Pewarchuk, is optimistic B.C.'s strategy to recruit U.S. doctors and nurses will bear fruit. This is the first of what we hope will be many recruits, said Pewarchuk, who also runs Aroga Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in nearby View Royal. The province's strategy to recruit out of Washington, Oregon and California — and I would put forward they should also be looking at Colorado — is really a stroke of genius. Pewarchuk said B.C. simply cannot train enough doctors and nurses to keep up with the growing demand of our aging and growing population. The number of health care practitioners in the U.S. dwarfs Canada. So it is a very rich ground to recruit from. For Yacoub, who has dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship, the process of moving to Canada is straight forward. However, American-born doctors would have to navigate Canada's immigration system, adding another possible roadblock. This year, the federal government slashed the number of skilled workers B.C. can bring in through the provincial nominee program, from 8,000 to 4,000. Osborne says that's an issue the province has raised with Ottawa. It has been a challenge that the provincial nominee program — the only way that British Columbia has any control over who is able to come in and work in our province — has had a decrease in its capacity. The province plans to reserve a quarter of those spaces for health care workers. As for questions about a pay gap between Canada and the U.S., Yacoub says the salary being offered by the Colwood Clinic is comparable to what he was making in Colorado. He says the pension was also a major draw. But the final decision came down to values and quality of life. I think one of the strongest things actually kind of pulled us to the area was the people. Katie DeRosa (new window) · CBC News
Miami Herald
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
How One Country's Left Halted the Far Right with Tough Immigration Stance
As fears of mass immigration have lifted the fortunes of right-wing populists around the Western world, one place that's not happening is Denmark. There, it is Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrat party that has implemented one of the strictest immigration systems in Europe in one of its most socially liberal countries. In so doing, Denmark has become an example for other nations seeking to strengthen immigration laws-not least the United States, where the perceived softness of the Democratic Party in this area was a key factor in the return of President Donald Trump last year. It also contrasts with much of Western Europe. "What I'm trying to convince most of my European colleagues about is that it has to be a democratic decision who will enter Europe," Frederiksen tells Newsweek in an interview in Copenhagen, a tolerant and cosmopolitan city where a religious group gifts Korans to shoppers barely 100 yards from the seat of power at Christiansborg Palace. Denmark gave asylum to 864 people in 2024-the lowest in 40 years with the exception of COVID-affected 2020-and the stated goal is zero. It is because of being a Social Democrat that she supports tougher immigration laws rather than in spite of it, Frederiksen says. Her argument is that the poor suffer most from overwhelmed schools, gang violence and insecurity resulting from those migrants who do not work or integrate with Danish society. The clearest testament to the success of Danish policies is the perception of would-be migrants themselves. Agob Yacoub is a Syrian of Christian origin who has been in Denmark for nearly 12 years after defecting from the army at the age of 23. He has worked as a social worker and a teacher and has learned Danish. But unlike family members who made it to nearby Sweden and became citizens four years ago, Yacoub's status is still temporary-and precarious. A few years ago, he had a map of Syria tattooed on one arm. He has no plans to get Denmark on the other. "The rules are somehow, like, designed to always make you fail," Yacoub tells Newsweek at his apartment in a diverse Copenhagen suburb where he lives alongside Sudanese, Iraqis, Palestinians and Albanians among others. "They are very good at sending a very bad picture of the system in Denmark that you will not get asylum," he says. "People will rather go to Sweden or Germany or elsewhere." Now he is considering whether to return to Syria after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year-and Denmark would give him up to around $30,000 if he were to go back permanently. Eva Singer, head of asylum at the Danish Refugee Council, tells Newsweek there had been a surge of requests from Syrians looking at possible returns. There is a fundamental problem with the message delivered to asylum seekers in Denmark, she says. On the one hand they were told to learn Danish-not the easiest of languages-to work hard and integrate. On the other, they were told their residence permit must be renewed every year or two with no guarantee it will be. "These two different messages, they clash, and it makes it very difficult for the individual refugee to say, how much should I really put into trying to learn the language and get into the labor market?" she says, acknowledging the broad support the immigration policies have. One victim may have been Denmark's far-right. Morten Messerschmidt, leader of the right-wing Danish People's Party, accepts that its poor opinion poll showing compared with anti-immigration parties in Germany, France or Britain partly results from the Social Democrats adopting policies they once branded xenophobic. "That's not a bad thing," the tall, blond, neatly coutured Messerschmidt says. "It's essentially a very good thing in a political or a parliamentarian system that the best argument wins." For Messerschmidt, the argument has now shifted to the clash of cultures between Islam and traditionally Christian Denmark and to the question of whether people who are already in Denmark either integrate fully with Danish culture or leave. In focus right now is the deportation of immigrants who have committed crimes but who cannot be expelled because of judicial rulings based on European human rights law. It is a challenge for Frederiksen that has echoes of Trump's judicially stymied efforts to deport criminals who entered the United States illegally. Alongside her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, Frederiksen penned a letter calling on the European Court of Human Rights to make it easier to deport foreign criminals-drawing a backlash from the court's parent body, the Council of Europe, which said: "Debate is healthy, but politicizing the Court is not." Asked whether Denmark could withdraw from the court, Frederiksen says: "That's not what we want to do." She argues that it is a question of democratic control over immigration and that the situation has changed since legal texts on asylum and refugee rights were adopted. "It was all about protecting minorities after the Second World War, especially the Jewish population. And I don't think they had the imagination that the result could be that a person from Afghanistan would enter Denmark and then commit very serious crimes," she says. "Europe is not able to welcome everybody, and maybe most important now, we have to be sure that we can get rid of people again if they don't behave well. It's not a human right to enter Denmark and do a rape and stay. The court has, of course, the right to be a court, but not to be an activist." 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