Word: tota
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...Tota Dance Bar in Dahab, the establishment's motto, plastered all around the place, is "Peace and Party." On a typical night, hundreds of young people from around the world hit the floor and gyrate until nearly sunrise...
...Tuesday evening, it was war in Dahab. Three terrorist bombs exploded on a promenade on either side of Tota, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens of others. Tota itself was spared, but Tota bartender Mohammed Yassin found himself saving lives instead of serving liquor. "I heard the explosions and ran outside," Yassin, 29. told TIME. "People were bleeding. I carried some of them to a taxi so they could get to the hospital." Twelve hours later, as detectives scoured the scene for evidence, Yassin shrugged in disbelief."This is a place where we feel the world...
...sack exploded in front of the Al Capone restaurant. A few seconds later, another explosion occurred in front of the Neptune Hotel 100 feet across a footbridge on the promenade, which runs along Dahab's windswept beach. Another few seconds later, 100 yards further down the walkway past the Tota Dance Bar, a third bomb exploded in front of the Mona Lisa jewelry shop. Mohammed Ali, who runs a computer shop on the promenade, lost two friends amid the carnage, both waiters at beachfront restaurants. "Because they are Muslims, I know they are in paradise now," he said...
...Tota Dance Bar, owner Della Levanos, 45, is determined to fight back. "Terrorism is a 21st century phenomenon," said Levanos, who says "fate" brought her to the Sinai 20 years ago from Australia and she never left. "London, New York, Madrid, Dahab. It could happen anywhere." Then she took a piece of chalk and scribbled a message in big letters on Tota's blackboard menu facing the promenade. "Stop Violence Everywhere," it said. "Stop All War." It's a new, less celebratory slogan for Tota. But after three successive terrorist attacks in what ought to be one of the most...