Word: egyptianism
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...after a trial that captivated the Arab world for nearly seven months, Egyptian billionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim. The pop star, with whom Moustafa had been romantically involved, was found mutilated in her Dubai apartment last July. The dramatic sentencing, which spurred a scuffle between reporters and Moustafa's relatives in a Cairo courtroom, capped one of the most sensational trials in Egypt's history...
...Appeared on Egyptian TV last August to deny rumors that he was involved in Tamim's death, arguing such gossip hurt the nation's economy, and proposing legislation making it a crime to spread rumors. His name was first linked with the homicide following the arrest of Mohsen al-Sukari, an ex-cop who had become a security guard at one of Moustafa's hotels. Security footage, fingerprints and blood-soaked cloathes dumped outside Tamim's building were later introduced as evidence of al-Sukari's guilt...
...were originally created during an orange surplus. According to Ben-Yehoyada, the 1990s saw the advent of popular Israeli and Jewish ethnic food. But many items associated with Israel in fact originated all over Europe and the Middle East. Schnitzel, from Germany, is often stuffed into pita, Falafel is Egyptian, Israeli salad is actually Turkish, and fried eggplant is Iraqi. “[Ben-Yehoyada] was incredible,” said Sarah B. Honig ’10, a member of the Harvard Culinary Society, which co-sponsored the event with the Harvard Students for Israel...
Although women have been applying kohl to their lids to enhance the size and shape of their eyes since ancient-Egyptian times, the idea of pasting on fake lashes didn't strike until 1916 when film director D.W. Griffith hired a wigmaker to concoct them (out of human hair and gauze) to give actresses a more glamorous and wide-eyed look. Griffith should have trademarked them; false eyelashes have been popular among the Hollywood crowd ever since. And recently divas like Jennifer Lopez and Oprah Winfrey have batted limited-edition lashes in outrageous materials such as feather...
...Council of Antiquities, announced earlier this week that his team of archaeologists was readying for the final approach toward what could be the tomb of Cleopatra. The site is at Abusir, some 30 miles from the port city of Alexandria, among the ruins of an ancient temple to the Egyptian god Osiris. Nearly two dozen coins unearthed there bear Cleopatra's profile and inscription, and carvings in the temple enclosure show two lovers in an embrace. A ceramic fragment supposedly mirrors the cleft chin of the rebel general Mark Antony - leading Hawass to speculate that it is the Roman...