Word: egyptianizing
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...Arabian Nights” dreams. I sat in intense anticipation for the belly dancer, who in my mind would be buxom, with stomach flowing in rolls and waves, and with enough glitter on her costume to make me flinch. What emerged instead, after two hours of an Egyptian cover band, was a very thin woman. Belly dancers are not supposed to be very thin. Here was a woman with fake breasts, no waist to speak of and certainly no belly. She probably exercised and was on a strict diet...
...pressure is also on Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to crack down on Hamas. He's getting some much needed behind-the-scenes help from the head of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, who dispatched assistants to the Gaza Strip to push the terrorist group into talks on a cease-fire with Israel. But those talks are dragging on, and Abbas continues to have his own problems. Last week his security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, met with Abbas' rival Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian official tells TIME, and assured him that "I am loyal to you. I am willing to implement your...
...better preserved of the two is a woman's arm that may be in a flexed position; the hand on the arm is clasped. If attached to the young woman's body, the arm would be bent across her chest and the hand could have held a scepter--an Egyptian sign of kingly power. "This was clearly someone of authority," says Ertman. "The only other time I've seen this is in an image of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king...
...everyone is convinced that the mummy of the young woman is, in fact, Nefertiti. Chemical and DNA tests, which might help confirm, for example, if any of the mummies are related--and prove that the arm and the mummy belong together--were forbidden by the Egyptian government. "It's very difficult to identify a mummy with a particular person, especially without DNA," says Peter Lacovara, curator of ancient Egyptian art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. "And as for the arm being flexed, a lot can happen when bodies are thrown around the room...
...According to Thailand's deputy police commissioner, General Sunthorn Saikwan, Arifin had links to a terror cell busted in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in May. During that sweep, police arrested two Thais?both from the south?and an Egyptian, and followed that up on June 11 with the capture of a Cambodian believed to be a member of the same cell. The Thai and Egyptian men were teachers at an Islamic school funded by the Saudi charity Om al-Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those...