Charlene Gubash

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Obeying their pharaoh, they left behind a treasure trove in Egypt's 'lost golden city'

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Keir Simmons |Charlene Gubash

By and SO’OUD ATEN, Egypt — It’s a familiar story: The whim of a leader upends citizens’ lives and leads them into the wilderness. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenaten was no different. Determined that his population should stop from worshipping multiple gods, more than 3,300 years ago he told residents to seal up their homes and workshops in the city of So’oud Aten with mud and clay bricks and move to a new home, a leading Egyptologist, Zawi Hawass, told NBC News last month.
U.S. and Israel reject Arab states' alternative to Trump's Gaza 'Riviera'

Mar 5, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Charlene Gubash

The United States and Israel have rejected a Gaza Strip reconstruction plan that envisions the devastated enclave being fully rebuilt without displacing Palestinians, as envisioned under President Donald Trump’s proposal to transform the territory into the"Riviera of the Middle East." Under the $53 billion reconstruction plan proposed by Egypt at an emergency summit in Cairo on Tuesday, Gaza, which has been largely destroyed in Israel's nearly a year and a half offensive in the enclave, would...
U.S. and Israel reject Arab states' alternative to Trump's Gaza 'Riviera'

Mar 5, 2025 | flipboard.com | Chantal Da Silva |Charlene Gubash

3 hours agoWhat 6 Americans Thought of Trump’s SpeechIn an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump denounced Biden-era policies, mocked Democrats and lauded his administration’s early hailstorm of executive actions. He was, he said, “just getting started.” How did his speech go over?
Missing tomb of Egyptian pharaoh solves one of ancient Egypt's great mysteries

Feb 20, 2025 | msn.com | Charlene Gubash

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Missing tomb of Egyptian pharaoh solves one of ancient Egypt's great mysteries

Feb 20, 2025 | yahoo.com | Charlene Gubash

CAIRO — A long lost tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found, the country’s antiquities ministry said Tuesday, answering a great mystery of one of ancient Egypt’s most prosperous eras. King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who reigned during the 15th century B.C., was the husband of one of ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled over an era of prolific building and expanding trade routes.
Missing tomb of Egyptian pharaoh solves one of ancient Egypt's great mysteries

Feb 20, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Charlene Gubash |Mithil Aggarwal

CAIRO — A long lost tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found, the country’s antiquities ministry said Tuesday, answering a great mystery of one of ancient Egypt’s most prosperous eras. King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who reigned during the 15th century B.C., was the husband of one of ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled over an era of prolific building and expanding trade routes.
He oversaw the public execution of two women. Now he’s Syria’s new justice minister.

Jan 19, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Ammar Cheikh Omar |Charlene Gubash

DAMASCUS, Syria — In a shaky video filmed in 2015, a woman cloaked in black and kneeling on a public street begs to see her children for the last time. Instead, a man identified as Shadi al-Waisi, Syria’s new justice minister, motions to a gunman, who shoots her in the back of the head. A second video shows al-Waisi reading out a death sentence for another woman, who, like the first, was convicted of corruption and prostitution. She is shot and drops to the ground.
He oversaw the public execution of two women. Now he’s Syria’s new justice minister.

Jan 19, 2025 | flipboard.com | Ammar Cheikh Omar |Charlene Gubash

5 hours agoSaif Ali Khan's Alleged Attacker Arrested In Thane, Suspected To Be A BangladeshiBollywood star Saif Ali Khan was the victim of a violent attack in his Bandra residence early Thursday morning. Reports say the accused has been arrested in Thane.
What just happened in Syria? Unpacking the historic week that toppled Assad

Dec 13, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Charlene Gubash

Dec. 14, 2024, 11:09 AM UTCDAMASCUS, Syria — For more than a decade, Syria was synonymous with war, brutality and the family dynasty visiting this violence on its own people. Then, in a relative eyeblink this week, everything changed. It was only on Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad fled the country as rebels entered Damascus. Syrians have since torn down statues of Assad and ripped back the veil from his murderous regime.
Iran throws its support behind Assad as rebels expand their shock offensive in Syria

Dec 1, 2024 | aol.com | Charlene Gubash

BEIRUT — Iran has thrown its support behind Syria's government after thousands of insurgents took control of the country's second-largest city of Aleppo and seized nearby towns and villages in a swift and surprise offensive. “We firmly support the Syrian army and government,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency, before he set off for Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday.