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updated June 1, 2002

 

The Trash Attack display


That is a cool creative way for a waste management idea! Congrats to the artists.

Adel Iskandar

 

For an event to be successful it has to have 3 successful elements:1- The place 2-The timing 3- The marketing. And as you might agree -- although this event was very important and interesting, it did not have any of those 3 elements.
Wrong place, wrong timing, and no marketing... no wonder no one was there when the writer of the article went. Such events should be displayed in a place easily accessed by the majority of the people and the Pyramids are definitely not that. Unless of course the exhibitors' aim was to display it for the tourist crowd and I wouldn't know why.

Mohamed Sakhawy

 

Unbelievable!!! It acquires more strength being realized close to the pyramids.

Tullio

 

This is a very nice artistic work and a very nice idea too

Ahmed Atalla

 

I think its beautiful!

Anonymous

 

 

Solid endorsements

I find that this site is the best overall news and views out of Cairo. It serves a large spectrum of topics from political to social to entertainment to travel. It serves both the expatriates and foreigners with interest in Egypt and the Middle East. I like  its unbiased opinions and the style of writing very much. I highly recommend it because it stands out among the very many sites coming out of this area of the world.

Omar Baba

 

The Cairolive content is even more deep than anyone would believe possible, even more so with the addition of the new sites. Best o' luck.

Dan Bernard

 

A blond stereotype?

I loved your site as a first time visitor, but I must say that I was a little amused at the stereotyping involved in the Darwich story.  Most Americans do not have the negative view of other countries that the "bleach blond" in the story did.  As an American who also happens to be blond I can honestly say that the majority of people I know are very interested in the Arab world and definitely do not lump Arab countries together with other countries.  The individuals that carry this view are obviously uneducated and in the minority.  I speak and read Arabic, plan on studying in Egypt and I hope that this story is just a one time occurrence on this site and doesn't leave people with an unfair and false representation of Americans and their opinions about Arab countries.  Otherwise, I found the rest of the site to be very informative as well as entertaining.

Jennifer

 

Hope for peace

Hello everyone over there in Egypt. I write to you from Adelaide, the capital city of my state of South Australia in Australia.
With a new year dawning, I hope peace will come to all in your part of the world, sooner rather than later.
Hopefully sanity will prevail and all peoples will begin to live in peace with each other.
Keep up the good work in giving all of us the opportunity to keep in touch with our friends in the Middle East.

Peter Thompson

 

The boycott meme

When people who promote the boycott of US products start talking they don't differentiate between American made products and Egyptian made products that have an American brand. I will never boycott products that are Made In Egypt
The answer to all your questions is very simple, it is a meme.
A meme is an idea that infects peoples brain (like viruses) without the permission or willingness of a person. Pronounced to rhyme with gene or dream, memes spread viciously fast and can mutate. Boycotting American products is a meme. It became powerful when everybody felt the injustice of the US and brutality of Israel. The problem with this meme is it charged peoples emotions against something that does not exist since truly American products are in low circulation, expensive and cannot compete with the rival Egyptian made products. So people attacked Egyptian products that held an American name.
This meme can be very nice if it limited itself toward imported products only. Shouldn't we be generally keen to buy national products and try to limit our expenditure on imported stuff (from any country). 

Mostafa Hussein

 

 

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