Tarek Atia's web log
Find
out how
the world media sees Egypt...
Facts
on the ground
A researcher who spent
several years in Egypt tries to prove that standardized development
rankings may not really reflect facts on the ground. In this article
from a newspaper in Iowa, she paints a portrait of an Egypt
featuring a much higher rate of emancipation
than reports would indicate.
Peace process
Stop talking about Azzam,
Maher tells Sharon, reports the Times of Oman
Meanwhile...
More Egyptian style architecture
in Geelong!
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posted by Tarek Atia Wednesday, August 6, 2003 6:00 CAIRO
Egypt unveils
2010 World Cup bid logo
Minister Hilal says that Naguib Mahfouz and Omar Sharif will be
bid's ambassadors...
A sad case
Food
poisoning makes the Wales press.
Welcome to the
club?
Moussa says League is willing to meet new Iraq council.
His spokesman says no
such meeting has been requested.
Meanwhile...
Kissinger's role
in the 1973 War
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posted by Tarek Atia Monday, August 4, 2003 4:00 CAIRO
Strong vibes
More reactions
to Hawass's bold request.
Major PR effect
Time magazine op-ed contributor argues that Egypt's weight in the
Israeli ambassador debate is quite significant.
Inspired by the
past?
Very interesting -- a 100km
race based on a pharaonic hieroglyph is set to take place in
November
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posted by Tarek Atia Sunday, August 3, 2003 4:00 CAIRO
Mad about
movies
A Lebanese Daily Star article waxes
poetic about an Egyptian film extravaganza currently playing at London's National Film Theatre. Musicals and dramas are on
screen, wowing audiences with what the writer terms as daring cinema
made all the more poignant by the fact that it is decades old.
Classic Egyptian
filmmaker Salah Abu Seif is quoted in the article describing his
passion for film, which involved creating "a mature cinematographic
world where man’s struggle against fatal social conditions and his
striving to change his destiny are expressed."
Meanwhile, modern
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine's segment in the controversial film
11 09 01 is called "fatally
pretentious" by a New York Times movie reviewer.
In other film
related news, we are informed by the BBC that the Egyptian
screening of the popular "Jesus" film played a big role in the
decision made by the group
that produced the film's controversial campaign to send it to Iraq.
...and,
Love-Hate personified --
According to a US documentary, Cairenes' favorite movie is Face-Off.
Two way trade
Interesting export -- handmade
furniture from Egypt to grace dormitory in Arkansas...
Meanwhile, India anxiously
awaits an FTA with Egypt. Once again, the motivation is
increased tea sales...
Wait for
Christmas
Trial delay
for Hizb U Tahrir Britons
Is this true?
Reports says that 88,000
Egyptian mosques will all be given the same Friday sermon to
read by the government, in order to avoid preachers going off on
extremist-tinged tangents...
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posted by Tarek Atia Friday, August 1, 2003 14:00 SHARM EL-SHEIKH
Social
dynamics
In
this economic
analysis from Business Week, McDonald's in Egypt is used as an example of how US brands
are faring globally in such turbulent geopolitical times -- apparently, people were
embarrassed to eat at
McDonald's during the attack on Iraq, so they ordered delivery
instead!
Interestingly
enough, the info comes from Egypt's representative at the UN.
Trouble ahead?
BBC reports that Kenya wants more Nile
water...
Books, etc.
Two pyramid themed books get dissed
by the Telegraph, one more than the other...
Another book review of a seemingly
important book about the history of the Suez Canal -- this one
from the New York Times
Under the
knife?
AFP concludes that "Plastic
surgery takes off in Egypt as women turn to Western ideals."
And most people
would say they were right...
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posted by Tarek Atia Wednesday, July 30, 2003 14:00 CAIRO
Mangos seized
Prime Minister Atef Ebeid, along with another top minister, had their
mangos seized by customs authorities, when they tried to bring them
into the country from Sudan.
The mangos
were actually gifts from Sudan that had been given to the officials
during a recent visit there, but bringing in mangos goes against fruit import laws.
Officials
destroyed the 300 boxes of mangos weighing some 1500 kilos.
Jordan speaks
for Egypt?
The Jordanian foreign minister says Egypt
and Jordan have agreed in principle to return their ambassadors to
Israel, but that there must be improvements on the ground first. In
another article, however, Egyptian Foreign Minister Maher says no decision
on the matter has been taken yet.
Meanwhile,
Mubarak says Sharon is the only
one who can make peace with the Palestinians
Angry reaction
Al-Ahram now says that US's decision to display Uday and Qusay's
bodies reveals American hypocrisy
-- considering the fact that the US had previously criticized Arab
channels for showing American POWs.
Matrix redux
Egypt's recent banning of the Matrix sequel gets a thoughtful
treatment from the Washington Times.
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posted by Tarek Atia Monday, July 28, 2003 16:00 CAIRO
Holiday mode
How Egyptian papers reacted
to the photos of Uday and Qusay...
Upbeat
downturn
Hossam Hassan upset
about being pulled out of soccer match with Saudi -- says he doesn't
want to play for Zamalek any more.
Questions,
questions
Does Iran
have Ayman El-Zawahiri in custody, and will they soon be giving him
back to Egypt?
Interview with American lawyer of imprisoned
Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, just after two of the most
serious charges against her were deemed too
vague.
PLUS: Karam
Zohdi says sorry. How Sadat's assassin has become a media
darling...
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posted by Tarek Atia Saturday, July 26, 2003 22:00 CAIRO
A little more
politics
AFP nearly republishes in full Al-Ahram columnist Salama Ahmed
Salama's recent
rant against the slow progress of change ailing the country's
political scene.
The article duly
notes the unusual harshness of the criticism, and tries to argue
that a new climate of permissible open criticism has been ushered
in.
Meanwhile...
a little less diplomacy
Thai students will no
longer be given scholarships to study in Egypt after a top Thai
official made a disparaging remark.
Defense Minister
Thammarak Isarangkura na Ayudhaya alleged that 10 per cent of Thai
foreign exchange students in Egypt were being recruited into
extremist groups. The remarks landed an immediate cut off of
Egyptian scholarship offers.
The Thai defense
minister now wishes his remarks had been censored.
He says he made
the remarks at a private gathering (an address to more than 500 armed
forces staff officer students and officers at the Army headquarters on
July 11), and that he was unaware there were reporters present.
"The issue is
sensitive and affects relationships. The defense minister is very
unhappy that it was reported without censorship,'' the Bangkok Post
reports a spokesman as saying.
Work slowdown
AP does a quirky story on the situation with Iraqi embassies in the
Middle East, using Egypt as its focal point. The fact that the embassy
is not really doing business has put many Iraqis abroad in limbo.
A little
business
$14
million textile deal signed with Chinese company, and 12 Kuwaiti
companies on Egyptian black list.
Update...
Egyptian-American convicted of plotting to smuggle
$600,000 from US to Egypt. Alaa Al-Saadawi now faces up to ten
years in jail.
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posted by Tarek Atia Thursday, July 24, 2003 16:00 CAIRO
Bringing back
the goods
Zahi
Hawass's ambitious
efforts to get the Rosetta Stone back from England -- as well as
the Nefertiti bust back from Germany, and even the Obelisk at the
Place de la Concorde back from France -- are detailed in this article
in Australia's The Age.
Britain is
stalling, of course, but may agree to a 3-month loan of the stone.
Riskier now?
More details on the Egyptian
conjoined twins in Texas in light of the failed attempt to
separate the Iranian twins. Doctors who have been studying the
possibility of separating the two young Egyptian boys think their
youth may save them the tragic fate of the older Iranian women.
But no word yet on
exactly when the operation might take place.
Photo opp
Maher and Abbas seem extremely happy
at this press conference in Cairo yesterday...
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posted by Tarek Atia Tuesday, July 22, 2003 14:00 CAIRO
Discrimination?
Egyptian born FBI agent files high
profile complaint against the FBI -- says they wont promote Arab
Americans, and that had they let him, he would have helped more with
pre and post 9-11 investigations.
Obituary
Abdel-Halim Moussa -- the former
interior minister who tried to negotiate with Islamic militants
-- gets a major obituary on CNN.
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posted by Tarek Atia Monday, July 21, 2003 12:00 CAIRO
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