Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Donations received by EgyptAid will be sent to the Egyptian National Bank for the purchase of food, medicine and temporary shelter, he said...
...Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...
...Bosnia-Herzegovina needed was another lesson in what a thankless task they face. They got one anyway, when two French soldiers were killed and five more injured as their convoy, carrying supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people who are enormously upset by the possibility of peace and determined...
Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council have been on a collision course since he took office last January. Though thoroughly cosmopolitan and a graduate of universities in Cairo and Paris, the Egyptian, the first Arab and first African Secretary-General, sees himself as a champion of the Third World. He is demanding that the political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their...
Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian, told the Security Council that Africans resented the U.N. rush into "the rich man's war" in Yugoslavia while it showed little urgency in helping Somalia, which a U.S. disaster official calls "the single worst crisis in the world today. People are dying in the thousands daily...