Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Move over, Zeffirelli. For a $10 million staging of Verdi's Aida this month, Egyptian-born Impresario Fawzi Mitwali rejected sets for the real thing: the Temple of Luxor on the site of ancient Thebes. Besides Tenor Placido Domingo, opening night featured the 525-member Arena di Verona Opera Company, 180 Egyptian soldiers and 200 extras tramping down the Avenue of the Sphinxes...
...Beside it lay the remains of the lethal van, in a burned and twisted heap. Ambulances wailed as armed guards lowered their weapons menacingly to keep curiosity seekers away. Bodies were scattered amid the rubble, some without limbs; screams and groans could be heard everywhere. Among the wounded was Fawzi Yazeji, a Lebanese guard, who was taken to the nearby Abu Jawdeh hospital for treatment. Said he: "Thank God this didn't happen two hours earlier, when the embassy was packed with hundreds of people waiting for visas...