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You are warmly invited to the opening of my show in the Al Hussein Fawzi Gallery of the Gezira Art Center.
There will be two other exhibitions in the other galleries with work by Hamdi Abou Elmaati as well as Pekka Person & Hamdy Reda.
The opening starts at 8.30 on Wednesday 24 June.
Daily, apart from Fridays, 10-2 and 5-9.
Host: Gezira Art Center, Zamalek, Cairo
Start Time: 24 June 2009 at 20:30
End Time: 9 July 2009 at 21:00
Location: Gezira Art Center
Street: 1 El Marsafy Street, Zamalek (behind the Marriott)
Phone: 0227373298
There will be two other exhibitions in the other galleries with work by Hamdi Abou Elmaati as well as Pekka Person & Hamdy Reda.
The opening starts at 8.30 on Wednesday 24 June.
Daily, apart from Fridays, 10-2 and 5-9.
Host: Gezira Art Center, Zamalek, Cairo
Start Time: 24 June 2009 at 20:30
End Time: 9 July 2009 at 21:00
Location: Gezira Art Center
Street: 1 El Marsafy Street, Zamalek (behind the Marriott)
Phone: 0227373298
Invitation
...to all deviant artists living in Cairo:
Next Thursday 29 January there is the opening of a group show with 18 artists in Maadi, which I'm part of.
The show is called
ON A CARAVAN
East and West journeying together through the arts
The participating artists are
Egypt & Middle East
Mohamed Abla
Dr. Reda Abdel Rahman
Omar El Fayoumi
Hany Rashid
Dr. Farid Fadel
Maher Ali
Hisham El Zeiny
Mansour Ahmed
Randa Fakes-LoGerfo
The West
Roland Prime
Dorian Haqmoun
Julie Oxenforth
Isolde Kadry
Maria Maher
Connie Fiorelli
Lucy Westwood
Kimberly Odekirk
Anne du Boistesselin
Location: St. John's Church Ma
Critical voices
The News stations don't show us any critical voices from inside Israel.
This article in the Haaretz newspaper is worth a read:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051968.html
I quote:
"That's how it is in Israel. Opposition to peace is always legitimate, patriotic and may be loudly proclaimed; opposition to war is always traitorous, anti-Israel, illegitimate and should be hushed."
"On the first day of this war, the television showed horrifying images. Hardly anything was concealed. Split screens showed the terror in Ashkelon on one side and the grief in Gaza on the other. Granted, on the English Al-Jazeera channel, an excellent and bala
Throwing shoes
You all have heard (or seen) by now what happened in Baghdad.
A serious matter: what if the Presidential Head had been hit? Would he have lost some of his abundant intelligence?
No, seriously: he saw the shoes coming and could duck. I'm not repeating his comment...
What bothers me is that the journalist is apparently getting a seven year jail sentence, if not more.
Some would give him a medal, rather.
Seems the news on the sentence was premature since he hasn't even be to trial yet.
Ahmed Fathalla died
He had a most instrumental role in the DA Egyptians group. http://egyptians.deviantart.com/journal/21666724/#comments
On DA he was batetooz (https://www.deviantart.com/batetooz)
I only met him twice: once in June '07 at a DA meeting, after which the huge man gave me a lift in his tiny red car.
And once this year at a DA meeting in Al Azhar Park, where I was sad because I didn't really have a chance to talk with him. Now I never will.
He was so bubbly and friendly.....
Last night I was looking forward to seeing him in a gallery, at an opening. I never did, because at that time he was dying.
This is why I still like DA: you meet people, sometimes even in reality, and you
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A belated congratulations on the show 
How did it go?
How did it go?