Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
6 - 12 January 2000
Issue No. 463
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Party Time!
Only half of the story
Certainly a once-in-a-lifetime event, the millennium party at the Pyramids was the place to be on New Year's Eve last Friday night. --read on--

Party or bust
Egypt's millennium celebration was spectacular in every respect, including the colossal traffic jam created by a youthful crowd estimated at over double the anticipated audience of 50,000.--read on--

Millennium runes
Move closer to each other and be tied together
by the warmest of all bonds,
like when the goddess "Nut" covered the body of "Geb"
and bestowed on the Earth a Sky,
and a boat for the sun "Atun" to sail.
--read on--

Celebrations by all means
For many Egyptians, the turn of the millennium meant neither Jean-Michel Jarre nor a drink in a bar. What, then, did they do, wonders Nesmahar Sayed
Pope
A bash not a bang
WHILE couples were scrambling in April to make themselves a millennium baby, others were stockpiling everything from canned goods to bibles. --read on--
Ringing in the young
While journalists went in search of millennium cultists, Palestinians went in search of a party. They found one, courtesy of Bethlehem 2000. Graham Usher saw in the new century from a devotional Jerusalem and a wild Bethlehem
 
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