TAREK ATIA'S
WEB LOG

Find out how the world media sees Egypt...



Wednesday
November 17, 2004

Larger role?
CS Monitor looks at Egypt's increasing role as Palestinian Israeli peace broker

More locusts?
Massive locust swarm threatens crops in northern Egypt

Greater margins?
BBC reform overview quotes Mohamed El-Sayed Said as saying ""I do believe that there is a very remarkable shift in the interaction between the state and political society."

 

Hip reversal?
Egypt lifts ban to allow foreigners to work as belly-dancers

Copy cats?
CNN does the Siwa haute couture embroidery story first picked up by BBC, calls it From desert oasis, to the catwalk

 

More death
Arafat's Brother Dies of Cancer in Cairo

Big release
Egypt Releases 700 Islamic Militants

Safety valve?
The Egyptian government has said Uganda is free to construct more dams to beat the increasing load shedding so long as a study is first carried out to avoid negative impacts.

Lots of science
The ATTA technique was used to determine that the water from a well in the Western Desert of Egypt has been underground for half a million years.

Eliminating lymphatic filariasis: Egypt begins the final chapter in stopping a dreaded disease.

"The discovery of the largest field of impact craters ever uncovered on Earth is the first evidence that the planet suffered simultaneous meteor impacts in the recent past. The field has gone unnoticed until now because it is partially buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert in south-west Egypt."

 

Web posted by Tarek Atia Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:30 CAIRO

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Talking Tut

NOVEMBER 11-12
Burying Arafat

NOVEMBER 9
Lots of denials

NOVEMBER 6
Actions and reactions

NOVEMBER 4
Harassing the press

NOVEMBER 2
Diplomacy and luck

OCTOBER 30
Party time and lost of misk

OCTOBER 28
Big-time politics

OCTOBER 26
Breaking after resting

OCTOBER 21
Iraq, Iraq, Iraq

OCTOBER 19
Endless news

OCTOBER 18
Boxing it up

OCTOBER 15
Education, antiquities and wheat

OCTOBER 13
New tours and nice finds

OCTOBER 11
Just a little this time

OCTOBER 7
On the merry go round

OCTOBER 5
Food for thought

OCTOBER 3
A pressing day

SEPTEMBER 30
More rollercoasters

SEPTEMBER 28
Synchronized news

SEPTEMBER 26
Routine unusual

SEPTEMBER 23
Stability and change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
New realities

SEPTEMBER 19, 2004
Bundles of irony

SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
Mixed up world

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004
Just the news
Narrow reforms
Bab El-Shams in Beirut
Soccer blames

SEPTEMBER 12, 2004
Aiming high
Gamal Mubarak's poster
Trouble and tragedy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2004
Courting change
Libs and cons
Mido trouble fest
Mo. Atta's father

SEPTEMBER 8, 2004
Plenty of surprises
Gaza time
Belly time
Amr Khaled

SEPTEMBER 5, 2004
Timely analyses

Mogamma tales
Miss Egypt
Egyptology 101

SEPTEMBER 3, 2004
Weekend mish-mash
Hostage released
Wrestler called Rock
Hamza case begins

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
The local-global view in a jiffy
Educational reform
Ruby goes global
Cheop controversy

 

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