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October 2009  Volume # 30  Issue 10 
 
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December, 2008
A Man With a Vision
Ihab El-Labban, commissar of the upcoming Cairo Biennale, has some serious ideas about bringing Egypt up in the arts world.

By  Sherif Awad
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Cover Story
Safety on the set
As the stunts that fill the cinema seats get better, so do the dangers of filming them. Yet 2009 recorded no major accidents, compared to the high-profile mishaps of years past. Egypt Today goes behind the scenes to find out what is going right in the world of stuntmen.
Actors lead a dangerous life. In this summer’s controversial hit Ehky Ya Shahrzad (Tell Us, Scheherazade), Mona Zaki’s character was brutally beaten up and dragged by her hair across a room by her husband, played by Hassan El-Radad. Later in the year, the actress was hanging off the back of a car with actor Ahmed Helmy as they were dragged through a parking lot. She walked away from both scenes with barely a scratch.

By  Lamia Hassan - Read more

et Feature et The Watch  
  From Front Runner to Also Ran  Anatomy of an Academic Year
How Farouk Hosni lost his bid to lead UNESCO

While Farouk Hosni is best known for being Egypt’s long-serving minister of culture, he is also one of the country’s most prominent abst

By  Andrew Raven   -  Read more
As the threat of swine flu delays the school year even further, parents are left wondering if health and education officials have done their homework

Ever since the H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, pandemic hit Egypt in early June, the country — like many others — has been in a state of panic

By  Passant Rabie   -   Read more

Too Tough for Football
Women beat men to the pitch in forming the first-ever national rugby team
By Passant Rabie
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Some Like it Raw
A guide to navigating the city’s best (and worst) sushi
By Lindsey Parietti
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Home at Hanfaninha
Three young artists turn an art class project and a family villa into a full-fledged studio gallery
By Lara El-Gibaly
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