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Al-Ahram Weekly 15 - 21 April 1999 Issue No. 425 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 15 - 21 April 1999 Issue No. 425
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Diwan delights
Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Profile Features Travel Living Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Sir-I would like to thank Yunan Labib Rizk for his most erudite and excellent weekly chronicle Al-Ahram: A Diwan of Contemporary Life.
What Dr Rizk is doing is really magnificent. He records past events and news from the historic and informative newspaper Al-Ahram.
It is certainly a great pleasure to read these chronicles. They are rich in information and details and available for all those who want to know about life in Egypt many decades ago. Thus these chronicles are definitely valuable research material for concerned researchers.
I am certain Dr Rizk is surmounting immense difficulties and work just to present us with a solid piece of excellent work and most valuable source of pleasure and information every week.
Thank you Yunan Labib Rizk, and thank you Al-Ahram Weekly.
Akef Adib Qusous
Jordan
Pot Pourri pleasure
Sir-I have been meaning to send you a message for a long time and at last I am doing so!
I want to let you know how much I enjoy reading Fayza Hassan's Pot Pourri column. As a foreigner who has been in Egypt for just over two years, I must say Ms Hassan's column has given me much pleasure and regular entertainment as well as many fascinating insights into life in Egypt, past and present.
Each time I buy Al-Ahram Weekly, the first thing I do is look for Pot Pourri. Sometimes it is not there and I then feel "cheated" out of my 75 piastres!
I hope Ms Hassan will go on writing the column for many years to come.
Richard Hornsby
Maadi
Miracle in El-Gouna
Sir-Last week I was spending a few days in El-Gouna, a beautiful resort on the Red Sea, near Hurghada. There I witnessed a miracle. A French man swimming from the Sheraton Hotel to a small island in front of it drowned and was resuscitated.
The following happened: he was pulled out onto the sand of the island, and the Sheraton nurse appeared within seconds and started to resuscitate him. The next moment, a team of doctors from Al-Gouna Hospital arrived by boat. The anaesthetist intubated him there and then, while the rest of the doctors carried on resuscitation. The whole group were taken back to the ambulance by boat -- during that time the patient was being ventilated by hand. An oxygen cylinder was even provided on the way by the diving team, to be used till the ambulance was reached!
The patient -- who turned out to have had two previous coronary bypass operations -- was admitted to El-Gouna Hospital in intensive care, and all that should have been done was done. He left the hospital, I am told, a few days later, quite well.
The miracle I am talking about is not the fact that he lived, as life and death are in God's hands. The miracle here is the speed of the help, the team work involved, the proper action carried out on the spot, the efficiency of the resuscitation team and the help offered by all, unselfishly. Last but not least is the presence of a well-equipped hospital with efficient personnel in an area that, only a few years ago, was desert.
We all thanked God that this man was saved. To the El-Gouna people, the hospital staff, and to all concerned I say: well done, keep up the good work.
Reine Naggar
Cairo
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