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United Arab Emirates: A 19th Century antique pearl necklace given to Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum by the late Sheikh Zayed, founder and ruler of the UAEH, has sold for $1.2m at a Christie's auction held in Dubai on Tuesday, reported Gulf News. The necklace, as well as 178 other rare jewellery pieces and watches, were up for sale at the acution. Christie's said it expected to raise more than $20m from...
A few weeks ago I went to see The Band's Visit . It's about a small Egyptian orchestra that arrives in Israel for a performance, but instead finds itself stranded in the desert, in the remote town of Beit Hatikva. All right, so you have to suspend disbelief for this one, considering Egyptians and Israelis aren't going to be performing in each other's countries anytime soon. Anyway, the band has no...
6a: 1. Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection - Stone Roses ( Silvertone 1989) 2. Bob Mould - Again & Again - District Line ( Anti- 2008) 3. Pixies - Where is my Mind? (live) - Live in Chicago 11-16-04 4. Dinosaur Jr. - Back to Your Heart - Beyond ( Fat Possum 2007) 5. Black Mountain - Wucan - In the Future ( Jagjaguwar 2008) 6. Sam Shalabi - Jessica Simpson - Eid ( Alien8 2008) 7. Om Kalsoum/Umm Kulthum...
I have been contemplating my supplications, the manner in which my tongue falls and rises tracing ancient pathways in different languages. A prayer I chant rhythmically in Arabic is taken around a different bend in Swahili, before I break down and try to get closer to what I really mean in English. Every time my tongue rises and [...]
In the beginning, there was a souk, an open-air market. That was the point where wanderers from Desert A met up with nomads from Desert B. The houses, the streets, the cities, the temples, the gods within them and the angry prophets who called on people to believe in those gods, all came out of the souk. It was also the oldest form of theater, because that is where the first dialogue was invented:...
Wow I can't believe it's the day after the fourth of July. I celebrated this holiday by doing very little out of the ordinary. Most of the day was spent researching Palestinian refugee camps and NGO's between Cairo and Jerusalem. I didn't have the luck I had hoped for with organizations here in Cairo so my plan is to head East. Although I'm not looking forward to being physically and psychologic
