		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 24 - 30 May 2001 Issue No.535
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Pack of Cards

By Madame Sosostris

I just had the chance to examine a new guide book which includes maps and a complete street index of Greater Cairo and I can tell you dears that this is a mightily useful book. Cairo City Key is prepared, designed and edited by Hoda and Hani Mohamed Moustafa El-Kolaly and I found it very easy to consult: the names of streets are listed in one column, the quarter in the second, and the reference of the relevant maps in the third. It is all very neatly set up and it will take you no time at all to locate the address you are looking for with the help of this little booklet compact enough to be carried around in one's car glove compartment.

Furthermore, if you need original greeting cards, I suggest you take a look at their elegant collection.

I am sure dears that you have heard or maybe are a member of the association of Friends of Children with Cancer. This association strives to alleviate the pain of children afflicted with cancer by making their stay in hospital as comfortable as possible. My good friend Farida Mansour, public relations and executive business centre manager at the Nile Hilton was telling me the other day that the hotel had recently made a donation of bed sheets, pillow-cases and towels in support of this noble cause. I think that this was really a very generous gesture and that many other hotels should follow the example of the Nile Hilton.

To commemorate the first anniversary of the death of famous artist Mounir Kanaan (1919 - 1999), an exhibition entitled "Egypt in the Eyes of Kanaan" has been organised in the Palace of Arts on the Opera grounds. The exhibition will be opened on 2 June by Ahmed Nawar, head of the Fine Arts sector and Hamdi Shehata, head of the central department for museums and exhibitions. The works of Kanaan will be on show for a month.

The American University in Cairo Press headed by its charismatic director Mark Linz are celebrating their New Spring Publications with a Book and Music Festival on 30 May at Beit El-Sehemi, Darb Al-Asfar. An event not to be missed.

Promising young pianist Yasser Mokhtar will be holding a piano recital at Cairo Opera House in the Small Hall. Do not forget this important event yea music lovers.

Magdi Allam, head of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Authority (EEAA) of Greater Cairo and Fayoum and head of the Arab Federation for Youth and Environment was chosen to represent the Arab and African regions in the preparation of a paper on planning the role of the International Environmental Amenities in the 21st century. Allam was selected among 10 international environmental specialists in the general assembly of this organisation which took place in New Delhi in 1998

On the sidelines on the COMESA summit, my dear friend Ambassador Ismail Mubarak, the Director of Public Relations, Sheraton Hotels Egypt, had the singular honour of welcoming Prime Minister Atef Ebeid and his distinguished guest Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, Sudanese First Vice President to a scrumptious working breakfast at El-Gezirah Sheraton.



Our dear colleague Maher El-Dahabi, deputy chief editor of Al-Ahram and his gorgeous wife Nagwa, public relation manager of Marie Louis, celebrated in great pomp the wedding of their son Ihab, senior director of the marketing department of The Egyptian American Bank (EAB) to the ravishing AUC graduate Rania Halim, daughter of Engineer Halim Ibrahim and his charming wife Nadia. The wedding took place at Villa Haramlik in Marioutiya in a setting worthy of the Thousand and One nights and the happy couple danced away the night among their distinguished guests to the sound of music selected specially for them by famous DJ Hani Wahba.

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