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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 23 - 29 November 2000 Issue No.509 
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 23 - 29 November 2000 Issue No.509
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Suffer the mothers
By Fayza Hassan
Another brick in the wall
Journalists were infused with a sense of purpose last week as international conservationists and environmentally-minded developers sent out a plea to carry their cause, reports Mahmoud Bakr
How much is that doggy...?
Injy El-Kashef watches the world go by
By Moushira Abdel-Malek
Chicken with rosemary
Over a hump and far awayCamels can only be imagined in conjunction with the desert. Their qualities have been praised, their strength used and abused, in conjunction with its sandy seas. They are reputed to be the most patient of animals, and the most enduring; but they are also the most intolerant when roused to wrath, and their eccentric, not to say ingenious, ideas of revenge on those who mistreat them are legendary.
Over the years, ungainly tourists have perched on their humps to gain access to remote locations, or simply for the inevitable, quintessential, Oriental photo op. Few, however, have wondered about the intelligence of these rather unwieldy animals; yet a superficial observation of their cryptic smiles, captured by photographer Doaa Abu Se'da, is sufficient to suggest that they regard humans with something less than the reverence our anthropomorphic sensibilities demand.
The beautiful beasts have developed various strategies for transmitting their innermost thoughts, like the camel at the Pyramids that had a well thought-out and flawlessly executed knack of regularly and effortlessly throwing off any female rider and innocently trotting back to its owner's tent. It eventually transpired that it hated its owner's wife, and was taking it out on her gender for good measure.
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