Sources: Egypt State Information Service (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Egyptian Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Mohamed Safaan, has announced that Thursday, October 6, 2016, would be a non-working official public holiday in Egypt for both the public sector and the private sector on account of the upcoming 43rd, anniversary of the 1973 war, annual non-working public holiday of Egypt. [full story]