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Miscellaneous
First ambassador to Israel dies
Saad Mortada, a career diplomat who served as Egypt's ambassador to
Senegal, the Emirates and Morocco before becoming the country's first
ambassador to Israel, passed away last week in the United States after
a long battle with cancer. Mortada was posted in Tel Aviv from
1979-1981 after the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
was signed. He was 78 years old.
A job with love
A government employee in charge of job placement in Qalyoubiya found a
strange bribe included in a young woman's application for
employment, reports Al-Wafd. Amongst the paperwork submitted by the young woman for a
jo, the employee found a letter addressed to
him declaring that the eager young applicant had fallen in
love with him.
In shock, the paper says, the employee first took up the matter with
his superiors, and then gave the clerk, who had accepted the woman's
application papers without going over them, a dressing
down.
Movies
Mahfouz is singing...
Gamal Bekhit, the poet who wrote the theme song to Youssef Chahine's latest film,
Sukoot Hansawar, paid Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz a
visit recently to present him with a personal copy of the song,
"Al-Masri"(The Egyptian), gallantly sung by Latifa in the film.
Mahfouz's connection to the tune is that one of the song's lines refers
to him -- along with another Egyptian nobel laureate, Ahmed Zewail:
"Mahfouz bee ghani ya leil, aa'la daqit alb Zewail"... or, roughly,
"Mahfouz is singing to the beat of Zewail's heart".
Bekhit also gave Mahfouz sketches depicting an imaginary jam session featuring Mahfouz
and Zewail, drawn by artist Walid Tahir.
New Developments
Shaaban Abdel-Rehim gets his own snack
 Shaabola chips are named after popular shaabi singer
Shaaban Abdel-Rehim, who shot to stardom
with last year's hit I Hate
Israel. Since then, Shaaban has recorded other
politically-driven
material, such as Amrika ya Amrika".
The new Shaabola chips show that once again,
Shaaban seems to be right on top of the marketing game, lending his
name
to a product that fits his image perfectly. The cheese-flavored chips
mark the second time Shaaban has been a spokesman for food products.
Earlier this year he sang the jingle for McDonald's new McFelafel sandwich
, and ended up embroiling the hamburger giant in a
PR contest with Isreali lobby groups that argued that an American
company should not use a
known Israel hater as its spokesman. The ads soon stopped running, and
Shaaban has since said he would sue McDonald's for a LE250,000 breach
of contract violation.
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