Word: egyptianism
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When Ziada was 8, her mother told her to don a white party dress for a surprise celebration. It turned out to be a painful circumcision. But Ziada decided to fight back. The young Egyptian spent years arguing with her father and uncles against the genital mutilation of her sister and cousins, a campaign she eventually developed into a wider movement. She now champions everything from freedom of speech to women's rights and political prisoners. To promote civil disobedience, Ziada last year translated into Arabic a comic-book history about Martin Luther King Jr. and distributed 2,000 copies...
Olmert, who faces possible corruption charges when he steps down and is blamed by Israelis for having led the country into inconclusive wars in Lebanon and Gaza, wants to end his term on a positive note. Shalit's release would do that. However, though the Egyptian-brokered talks are top secret, Hamas is said to be exacting a high toll for Shalit's freedom. Press reports say the Islamists are demanding that Israel release 1,400 prisoners in three stages, including "several dozen" serving life senteces for multiple killings. This pains Israel because it means that terrorists "with blood...
...better target of affection.The film remains an immersive experience. Its heavy, disheartening examination of society’s periodic wish for self-destruction builds through long, brooding scenes and stunningly detailed panoramas—from Blake’s lonely, rainy funeral to Veidt’s ancient Egyptian-style retreat in Antarctica. This attention to detail, however, inevitably makes the movie feel slow at times. The viewer must embrace it and soak in the film’s visual extravagance, or reject it and battle moments of boredom, which at 163 minutes the movie cannot avoid.The film?...
...above-the-knee skirts, some in long dresses and head scarves. It's a typical soirée for Cairo's well-heeled set, yet tonight there's more than the usual Middle East-meets-West twist. The revelers are here to toast an unlikely creative marriage, between Egyptian artist Azza Fahmy, who has spent decades reviving Arab jewelry traditions, and British designer Julien Macdonald, whose dresses are worn by London's party crowd...
Originally, Fahmy had no plans to go into fashion. The daughter of a cotton trader, she became an illustrator for Egyptian government publications after graduating from art school. At a book fair in Cairo in 1969, she came across a volume on medieval European jewelry. The book sparked a painful memory of Fahmy's widowed mother, who once had to sell her wedding jewelry to make ends meet. That memory prompted Fahmy to turn her skills to jewelry, and she set out to learn the trade from a craftsman in a cramped and dirty workshop of the Cairo souk. Macdonald...