TAREK ATIA'S
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Monday
December 6, 2004

 

More help needed
Lots of comments by the EU's Moratinos after meeting with Mubarak: "I think it's high time that the Arab countries, the Gulf countries, with ... high revenues from oil, support the Palestinian Authority because they need ... financial support..."

 

Azzam for students?
Israeli spy Azzam Azzam is released in exchange for the 6 Egyptian students accused of plotting terror in Israel...

Denials that the exchange was part of a deal... and rumors that an ambassador will soon be reinstated....

Haaretz claims students may face charges back in Egypt....

... and is surprised by Mubarak's comments about Sharon being capable of making peace with the Palestinians...

 

More handovers
Iran hands Egypt militant thought to have plotted Mubarak's assassination attempt.

 

Digging the news
New Luxor archeology evidence forms the basis of a Discovery channel special on Ramsis, and calls the Bible story about Exodus into question...

NPR interviews Zahi Hawass in California about the big King Tut tour...

Plus, two future Egypt antiquities projects win prestigious Dubai based design awards.

 

Tragic passing
Said Sonbol, a veteran columnist and former editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, dies.

How's econ?
Industry Minister Rachid at Brookings: "As one of the first members of the private sector to be brought into the Egyptian Cabinet in many decades, he said, he embodies the government's recognition of a need for change."

Meanwhile, petrol companies to be privatized...

Plus is the World Bank happy with Egypt's reform moves?

 

Web posted by Tarek Atia Monday, December 6, 2004 1:30 CAIRO

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