A Cairo appeals court hearing a real-estate magnate and former member of parliament's appeal of his conviction for murdering a Lebanese pop singer on Thursday decided to reconvene in a month. Cairo's Court of Cassation, the nation's highest appeals court, will reconvene on March 4 to continue hearing Hisham Talaat Moustafa's appeal for the murder of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim. A lower appeals court in June confirmed a criminal court's earlier death sentence against Moustafa and Mohsen al-Sakkari, a former Egyptian State Security officer, on charges Mustafa had paid al-Sakkari to murder the singer in her Dubai apartment last July. Moustafa was a member of the Shura Council, the upper house of Egypt's parliament, representing the ruling National Democratic Party.
