October 2008  Volume # 29  Issue 10

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Home | Inside this issue    First Draft    Home of Their Own by patrick fitzpatrick    Newsreel Tourists Kidnapped by Jessica Gray    The Watch    A Day without Mercy by Ali El Bahnasawy When the building-sized boulders fell on the houses of Duweiqa, the aftermath was terrible. Egypt Today was at the site on September 6 to witness one of Cairo’s darkest moments.    The Watch    Blowing Smoke by Dina Basiony It turns out that the ‘sick’ man on the cigarette packet warnings is alive and smoking. Now the Minister of Health is being sued over the alleged deception.    The Watch    Campus Confusion by Kholoud Khalifa The much-hyped new campus of the American University in Cairo has led to dismay among students and staff and pleas for patience from administrators    The Watch    Show Me the Money by Ethar El-Katatney Doctors and teachers, fed up with dismal pay, are speaking up and taking action    The Watch    Speed School by Jehan Soliman A school for desert racers puts the “old-timers” with the newcomersto teach speed, technique and a healthy respect for the sand    The Watch    Pyramids Makeover by Hossam Zaater The last of the Seven Ancient Wonders gets a twenty-first century facelift, but pleasing everyone proves to be a difficult task    The Watch    Smoke Screen by Manal el-Jesri Economist Nader Fergany has a bone to pick with those who see a rosy fiscal future    The View    The Breeding Residents of El-Gouna by Richard Hoath Coastal developments on the Red Sea are not always bad news for local wildlife    The View    Helping Hussein by Neal Hussein A Muslim campaigner reflects on the need to defend Barack Obama’s Christianity to American voters    The View    The Worldview from the Top by Gwynne Dyer If Barack Obama becomes the next US president, where does his running mate, Joe Biden, fit in?    Faces Lisa Anderson by Hadia Mostafa The former dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs joins AUC as provost, ready to usher in a new era    Cover Story The Other Side of the Tracks by Manal el-Jesri Residents of the nation’s shantytowns are often invisible to the rest of society, until a disaster such as the Duweiqa rockslide or the fire at the Qale’et El-Kabsh slum. Those living in Ezbet Arab Abu Regeila say they would rather be invisible than face the disaster in front of them: eviction.    Feature Dancing With Controversy by Erika Sherk Modern dance is moving to center stage, despite those who condemn it as a sin    Feature A Scottish Effendi by Jason Thompson In 1987, author and historian Jason Thompson introduced readers of then Cairo Today to Scotsman Donald Thomson, better known in his adopted homeland as Osman Effendi. Two decades later, Thompson revisits Osman with a more complete, vibrant look at the life of the former slave who rose to gentility in Mohamed Ali Pasha’s Egypt.    ET Guide    Whatever Lola Wants by Sherif Awad Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch speaks out about the inspiration for and reaction to his controversial film    ET Guide    Everything Old is New Again by Tamara El-Essawy New releases from Metallica, The Verve and Late of the Pier    ET Guide    Flawed Jewel by Ethar El-Katatney The Jewel of Medina, a fictionalized version of the life of Lady Aisha, has reopened the debate on portraying Islam’s sacred figures    ET Guide    The Art of Persuasion There’s more to directing than yelling “lights, camera action”    ET Guide    A Taste of India by Dina Basiony    ET Guide    Tuning Up by Hossam Zaater Our bodies require so much maintenance that the consequences of ignoring warning lights can be alarming    ET Guide    The Art of Persuasion by Mohamed Khan There’s more to directing than yelling “lights, camera action”    ET Guide    Culture 101    ET Guide       ET Guide    At a Cinema Near You    ET Guide What to do?

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