Employment ban (Al-Ahram Weekly)

21 November 2008, 8:08 am

Following the sentencing of two Egyptian doctors in Saudi Arabia to prison terms of 15 and 20 years and 1,500 lashes each the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration (MMI) announced on 12 November that Egyptian doctors were henceforth banned from signing contracts with Saudi private hospitals.... Read More »

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