Het gonst al een tijdje van de geruchten over het mineraal water in Egypte.26-05-08
Radio 2 in Nuweiba
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24-05-08
Met "De madammen" naar Egypte en Jordanië
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[23/5/2008 Categorie: Radio] Eind februari 2008 hebben ‘De madammen’ van Radio 2 maar liefst twintig reizen voor twee personen naar Egypte (Taba) en Jordanië (Petra) weggegeven. En nu is het zover: op vrijdag 23 mei vertrekt Cathérine Vandoorne samen met de groep. De twintig gelukkigen gaan er dankzij ‘De madammen’ en Radio 2 genieten van zon, de Rode Zee en heel veel cultuur: Wadi Rum en de ‘7 Pillars of Wisdom’, Petra de verborgen stad; het kruisvaarderskasteel van Shoubak, het Sint-Catharinaklooster (met het braambos van Mozes), enz... Bovendien leren de luisteraars de plaatselijke gewoonten echt kennen. Ze leren Jordaans koken van plaatselijke vrouwen en koks en ze maken een bedoeïenenfeest mee. En om het nog exclusiever te maken reizen ook Günther Neefs en zijn gitarist Davy Raes mee: ze geven de groep een intiem en akoestisch concert in openlucht met de mooiste liedjes van Günther. De thuisblijvers kunnen alles volgen via radio2.be, aan de hand van de foto's en de verslagen van de luisteraars en via ‘De madammen’ waar Cathérine Vandoorne elke dag verslag uitbrengt. In ‘De madammen’ krijg je van maandag 26 t/m vrijdag 30 mei ook elke dag een reportage van Filip Ledaine. Filip volgde het wel en wee van een Vlaamse in Egypte. Greta Sinnaeve maakt na 15 jaar deel uit van het dagelijkse leven van het bedoeïenendorp Nuweiba - El Mezzeina. Ze heeft er een project voor duurzame ontwikkeling opgestart: toeristen laten kennismaken met het authentieke Egypte en op die manier de plaatselijke bevolking van een inkomen voorzien. Tijdens de reportages hoort de luisteraar Greta van bij het ontbijt tot ze op prospectie trekt naar Petra in Jordanië. Tussenin gaat ze boodschappen doen, controleert ze of haar schooltje volloopt en brengt ze een bezoek aan een aantal vriendinnen, in de woestijn en in het dorp. Het leven zoals het is - een Vlaamse madam in Egypte, vijf dagen lang in ‘De madammen’. ‘De madammen’: elke werkdag van 9 tot 12 uur. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14-10-07
Mineraal water in Egypte
Mineraal water in Egypte.
Het gonst al een tijdje van de geruchten over het mineraal water in Egypte.
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Egypt's minister of religion reejects the veil
Egypt's minister of religion rejects the veil
The Egyptian government is embroiled in an angry dispute with conservative Muslims after trying to clamp down on women who cover their faces with a veil.
The controversy comes after the minister of religious endowments, Hamdi Zaqzuq, expelled an official from a meeting after she refused to remove her niqab, a veil that leaves only the eyes exposed.
"I totally reject the niqab," said Mr Zaqzuq. "No religious counsellor needs to wear it, since it is not required by Islamic law."
The woman was one of 50 people appointed to provide religious guidance. Fully veiled women have now been banned from the post because the minister feared they would "promote the culture of the niqab".
The dispute echoes the row that engulfed Jack Straw in Britain, when the former foreign secretary said he asked constituents to remove their veils during meetings – prompting cries of "Islamophobia".
Wearing the full veil is banned in Turkey and Tunisia and there are growing restrictions in Egypt. Helwan University, in Cairo, has banned the niqab and expelled 15 students who refused to abandon it.
Egypt's government-backed newspapers also campaign against it. Salama Ahmed Salama, a columnist in the daily Al-Ahram, said: "The niqab degrades women. They cannot function as teachers, doctors, journalists or government employees."
Some 80 per cent of Egypt's women cover their hair and although the niqab remains rare, its popularity is growing. Wearing it is seen increasingly as a political statement and critics say the crackdown highlights the secular government's anxiety to keep power out of the hands of conservative religious groups. Egypt Daily
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03-10-07
New terminal in Sharm El Sheikh
The new US$70 million terminal at Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport was Inaugurated by Egypt's President Mubarak earlier last month, the two-level 43,000m2 terminal features 40 check-in counters and is designed to cater to a large number of international, chartered flights with one domestic and six international gates. The terminal design reflects the natural beauty of Sinai.
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27-09-07
Alexandria : The city that fell into the sea
Egypt: The city that fell into the sea
Millions of tourists journeyed to Egypt last year. Almost all of them either battled the regimented coach parties to glimpse ancient Pharaonic monuments or flocked to the beach resorts that offer world-class diving and windsurfing, and which sadly are also devastating the ecology of the Red Sea coast. But there are many other Egypts.
One of the country's neglected places is Alexandria, immodestly named by its founder, Alexander the Great. This Mediterranean port is also famous as the home of Queen Cleopatra, from the days when it vied with Rome as the world's greatest city, trading every ancient commodity and boasting 700,000 scrolls in its library.
A second era of celebrity came in the century up until the 1950s, when Alexandria's commercial prowess came again to the fore, allowing a cosmopolitan hedonism captured in the novels of Lawrence Durrell and others.
Now the foreigners are gone (though its 30km of beachfront draws Egyptians in the summer) and it has something of the taste of old Havana. 21.09.2007
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Tutankhamen 'was not black'
26-9-07
Tutankhamen 'was not black'
CAIRO -- Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamen was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognize the boy king's dark skin color.
"Tutankhamen was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it," Hawass told reporters.
"Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa," he said, quoted by the official MENA news agency.
Hawass said that he was responding to several demonstrations in Philadelphia after a lecture that he gave there September 6 where he defended his theory.
Protestors also claimed that images of King Tut were altered to show him with lighter skin at the "Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit, which leaves Philadelphia for London September 30.
The exhibition sparked an uproar when it kicked off in Los Angeles in June 2005 when black activists demanded that a bust of the boy king be removed because the statue portrays him as white.
The face of the legendary Pharaoh, who died around 3,300 years ago at the age of just 19, was reconstructed in 2005 through images collected through CAT scans of his mummy.
The boy king's intact tomb caused an international sensation when it was discovered by Briton Howard Carter in 1922 near Luxor in southern Egypt.
METimes 25.09.2007
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