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Sports
FIFA president in town
FIFA president Joseph Blatter was in Cairo earlier this week for the Egyptian national team's world cup qualifier victory over Senegal. Blatter was here to honor Egypt's star striker Hossam Hassan for having the largest number of international matches under his belt. The FIFA president also helped lay the foundation stone of the African soccer federation's new headquarters in 6 October City, and indicated that he would try and secure more spaces for African teams in the next world cup. This year, only five African teams will advance to the tournament.
Miscellaneous
Who hates Israel more?
An Alexandria poet's society has decided to establish a contest called "I Hate Israel too", for impromptu, spontaneous poetry. Taking its name from the famous song by Shaaban Abdel-Rehim, which has been receiving a lot of local and international press these days (cairolive.com covered it here first, nearly four months ago), the contest calls for contestants to submit their poems -- consisting of no more than 40 stanzas -- before May30.
Movies
Negm's movie debut
Famous shaabi revolutionary poet Ahmed Fouad Negm will be making a cameo in Shabab Alal Hawaa, a Hanan Turk film set to be released this summer. Negm, a poet and singer whose duets with blind oud player Sheikh Imam were banned in the late 60s and early 70s, but had a highly popular underground following, plays a grandfatherly character who spouts wisdom about values and such in the face of modernity's declining morals and interest in materialism. The film's director, Adel Awad, says he had previously tried to get his friend to appear in video clips, with no luck, and that he was very proud and surprised that Negm finally agreed to appear in the movie.
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