TAREK ATIA'S
WEB LOG

Find out how the world media sees Egypt...



Tuesday
November 2, 2004


Taba in the news again
Taba bombers are not linked to Al-Qaeda, Egypt says. AP's version as well as the BBC's are nearly identical.

Plus, a New Jersey paper says tourism is resilient in the face of the attacks.. and a strange New Zealand Herald story exposes, then justifies, seemingly lackadaisical security procedures. 

Iraq overload
Commentators tell AFP that the US elections will have a major effect on the upcoming Sharm Iraq conference.

Meanwhile, 100 Iraqi bureaucrats come to Cairo for training.

Plus, The CS Monitor gauges a shift in attitude towards support for an overly violent Iraqi resistance, and Colin Powell talks to Nile TV about the upcoming Sharm El-Sheikh conference on Iraq, calling the insurgency "barbarous activity".

Palestine
Mubarak calls an ailing Arafat to wish him well.

US prez
MSNBC does the whole who would Arabs vote for thing? from Cairo...

Plus, have you seen my story on the same?

 

Re-doing Luxor 
Luxor's Valley of the Kings set for massive conservation project to be led by Kent Weeks

Plus, is an ancient Egyptian curse affecting this horse race?

 

Big money
Egyptians abroad send $3 billion back home. Most of the money comes from the US.

Meanwhile, Egyptian born NY stock hustler in legal trouble for pre and post Sept 11 sales.

Tragedy in Sohag
Muezzin with seven daughters kills 4 of them, injures the others, because he's angry at not having any sons.

 

Web posted by Tarek Atia Tuesday, November 2, 2004 12:30 CAIRO

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MORE WEB LOG

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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