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updated November 28, 2002

 

Ramadan spirit

Thank you all for your thought provoking article.. A Date with Sunset.
Mohammed A. Aleem

 

I was greatly encouraged to read the article on Ramadan -- that the conductor and inspector were both so community minded says much about their society. Keep up the good work.
Rev Chris McAleer, Anglican priest, South Australia

 

The library that inspires

I love it. I am very impressed. That will be my first visit when i go back to Egypt. Thanks!
Zainab

 

This is truly an exquisite, 21st century, first class work of art, practicality and beauty! Congratulations! Keep up your united support for Palestine!!!
Sr. Maria Theresa Magrie, IHM

 

For 20 years I have been fascinated by the architecture of the Middle East. This latest achievement, the library, is truly amazing. Congratulations to those responsible.
Earle

 

It is one of the most beautiful art piece in the world. I'm very proud of Egypt my country. God bless.
Violet Antonios

 

I am very very happy and feel honored to be Egyptian.
Fares

 

 

Todays top news

These were the best words I have ever heard.
Wendy

 

 

Ramadan TV

I love the Ramadan series updates... They are hilarious. Please keep us posted on all the tamsiliyat melodrama.
Anne

 

One of the best TV series in Ramadan is Ameera fi abdeen. As is always the case with scriptwriter Osama Anwar Okasha, every single thread of the series' events is firmly held in professional hands.
Each author is characterized mainly by a theme that persists in his literary works and with Okasha it is always the real versus the sham.
The real is always where one's roots belong. The sham may be beautiful and gorgeous but it is never to last.
What lasts are the people, the ethics and the morals.
Dexterously mastering the tools of the ancient districts in Egypt where the real simple people live, Okasha draws another beautiful portrait of this life.
Noha el Kholy

 

 

Revising history

I am responding to a question posed by Ctanth.  Your response that . . . 
"Revisionist historians such as Martin Bernal, author of Black Athena, have argued that the African influence on Pharoanic civilization has been glossed over, and that the real  Cleopatra looked a lot more like Queen Latifa than Liz Taylor."
 . . . is a distortion of Martin Bernal's argument.  None of his published works state anything about the race of Cleopatra. Black Athena is primarily concerned with the origins of Ancient Greece.
The only area he deals with race is in describing the 18th Dynasty Pharaohs, Classical Egypt if you will, whose appearance and culture are based on statuary and those who say they fit more with the culture of Black East African tradition than European or Semitic. The statues of Queen Tiyi & Amenhotep III, two of the most powerful rulers of this Dynasty, make these statements clear.  I have viewed these statues, and traveled throughout Egypt extensively.
Europeans have "revised" much of Egyptian history to fit their view or canon.  Bernal appropriately places Egypt back to a place more consistent with how the ancients viewed them. There were many writers before Bernal, who is of Jewish decent, who said the same thing African American and European scholars alike.
Robert

 

 

Reassurances from Texas

I live in Texas, and I just wanted to wish all my friends in Egypt a very Happy Ramadan, and to remind them that not all Americans are insane like the U.S. government.
Mike Bryant

 

 

Sean Penn speaks for all

In regards to your comments about most Egyptians sharing Sean Penn's sentiments in his open letter to George Bush, I want to inform you that Mr. Penn is also speaking for a large percentage of the population in The United States. Certainly here in California, that opinion is overwhelmingly so.
Rich

 

 

Sobhi musings

Where will I be able to purchase the book by Mohamed Sobhi Horseman without a horse? Are any video-tapes available?
W. Tete

 

Three cheers for President Hosni Mubarak, Dream TV, and Egypt's Channel 2 for not caving-in to pressure from the United States to stop the broadcast of "The Horseman without a Horse"! What right does the U.S. have to tell Egyptians what they can watch on their own television stations? What arrogance! American television is full of Jewish programming, styled either as "news", "documentaries", or "entertainment", but are often nothing more than Zionist propaganda which constantly portrays Christians and Muslems in a negative way.
Where is the U.S. Congress when Jewish films and TV productions mock those who follow religions other than Judaism? Where is their righteous indignation when Jewish propagandists accuse the Church of co-responsibility for the so-called "Holocaust"? Where is their sense of fairness when every Arab is stereotyped by the American-Jewish TV media as a terrorist?
The producers of "The Horseman" should be congratulated for their courage in bringing the subject of "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" to the screen. Regardless of who actually wrote down "The Protocols," it is impossible that they could have been made up out of thin air, since their entire program has been implemented, so far, to perfection! Or, as the great automaker, Henry Ford, once said about them: "They certainly seem to fit."
But if "The Protocols" are an obvious hoax, why, then, do the Jews always protest so loudly against their publication? To borrow a line from William Shakespeare: "Me thinks they protest too much!" I would be most grateful if anyone could inform me how to contact Dream TV for a copy of the series in a format that could be shown in the USA - where it is past time for equal time! Can I purchase a video copy of the series in English and in the NTSC television standard? Americans who are sick and tired of Zionist propaganda going unanswered, year after year, should do everything possible to get "The Horseman Without A Horse" broadcast in the states via WorldLink TV.
Gary Giuffré

 

We live in the US eastern time zone and are not able to view This series (Fares bela Jawad) at any certain time . We saw the first 3 episodes and cannot seem to view it anymore. Is it still broadcasting? And at what time in eastern tine zone of the United States. Thanks
OASalman

 

I do hope that you will have the series made available somehow with English subtitles so that we  can also view it in the future. It would be very interesting indeed for us. I admire your fortitude and wish you success.
Gustio

 

 

 

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