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...leader Katherine Sheeleigh to senior striker Erin Wylie for a one-time tally, or the closing minutes of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations this past February.It’s the latter.And the goal, tallied in the 77th minute of the final on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Egypt??s immortal Mohamed Aboutrika, sent a country into pandemonium.While the coffee shop turned sports-bar jumped for joy, while the red, white, and black of Egypt??s flag waved from the balconies in the crowded streets of Cairo, I sat and watched. When the final whistle...
...made the 24-hour trip to Egypt four times in two years to work on my master’s project in journalism. My last trip, in April 2008, finally brought me to the story I had been chasing: the biggest civil uprising against Egypt??s military government in three decades. Taking photos in the strike’s epicenter, the industrial city of Mahalla, I was kidnapped by the police on Apr. 10. My translator, trying to help me get away, was nabbed as well...
...part caused middle and lower-class Egyptians to construct many “illegal” residences squeezed next to each other on arable land. The problems associated with sprawl affect all Cairenes, since these “suburbs” occupy land that could be used to feed Egypt??s swelling population. Cairo is Africa’s largest city...
...hear the Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble (CCOE) perform selections from the oeuvre of Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh. Sponsored by Xauen Music, Inc., a Chicago organization dedicated to the preservation of traditional music from the Near East, the performance showcased the work of now-deceased Darweesh, who is considered Egypt??s premier 20th century composer and one of the great innovators in Arabic music...
Composer of Egypt??s current national anthem, “Biladi” (My Homeland), Darweesh was as innovative as he was prodigious, and he is famous for introducing harmony and counterpoint to Arabic composition and including parts for Western symphonic instruments in his ensemble pieces. His career was tragically cut short by a cocaine overdose in 1923, but his productive years were enormously prolific: he left behind 30 musicals, 150 songs and eleven adwars (complex, multi-section, songs...