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Icons of a generation
Last Friday, Egyptian dancer and actress Hayatem died at the age of 69. Born in 1949 as Soheir Hassan Mohamed in Alexandria, Hayatem embarked on her artistic journey as a professional belly dancer in Alexandria in the 1960s, beginning to act later (...)

02 - 08 - 2018
Diplomacy in the blood
The Foreign Ministry and the Egyptian Embassy in France mourned the passing away of Ambassador Ali Maher who died Wednesday 23 November at 77. Maher is a prominent Egyptian diplomat and intellectual figure. Born on 4 January 1939, Maher belongs to a (...)

30 - 11 - 2016
Uzbekistan loses its erstwhile leader
Uzbekistan has known only one president since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and he ruled it with an iron fist till his death last week. Although the Uzbek authorities officially announced Islam Karimov's death on 2 September, doubts (...)

06 - 09 - 2016
A memorable life
“I am very proud of my many decades of artistic achievement. I think I managed to realise all my dreams and say all that I wanted to say,” Ratiba Al-Hefni announced in her last interview — published on those pages in April this year. The news of (...)

25 - 09 - 2013
Kariological times of a kindly man
Dr Mursi Saad Al-Din, Commander of the British Empire and former head of the State Information Service, deserved a state send-off. However, in the current political climate in the country that was not possible. This, of course, is less a comment on (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
Requiem for a danseur noble
Born in Cairo on 21 February 1949, Abdel-Moneim Kamel's first steps as a dancer coincided with Egypt's dynamic development of the ballet scene. In the 1970s, he experienced the highest international glory and in the 1980s he decided to bring his (...)

12 - 03 - 2013
A new Islamist course
Whenever I visited Gamal Al-Banna, who passed away last week, his head would be buried in newspapers or books. His crammed bookshelves cast a shadow over his thin frame as he intently took notes or penned his thoughts with the energy of a man still (...)

06 - 02 - 2013
Yes, Minister
By Mahmoud Mourad Obituary: Zakaria Mohieddin (5 July 1918-15 May 2012) Zakaria Mohieddin, whose military funeral headed by Field Marshal Tantawi took place on Tuesday, was not only an admirable man but a national symbol. He is the very embodiment (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Obituary: Helmeya Crest
(1941-2010) Few can question the place occupies in the hearts of millions of television viewers across the Arab world, who awaited his works impatiently every year especially during the month of Ramadan when they open premiered. Since the start of (...)

03 - 06 - 2010
Obituary: El-Sayed Radi (1935-2009)
THE VETERAN director-actor El-Sayed Radi died Friday, following an extended illness that cut short the filming of a television drama. Born in the province of Gharbiya in 1935, Radi graduated from drama school in Cairo in 1960; immediately he (...)

16 - 04 - 2009
Ismail Sabri Abdullah: Mapping the Arab future
Egypt mourns , deputy president of the left-wing opposition party Al-Tagammu (the national Progressive Unionist Party) died last Monday following a long and brave battle with cancer. Abdullah, an internationally acclaimed developmental economist, (...)

09 - 11 - 2006
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