Pack of Cards
My first item this week, my dears, bodes well for our beloved marketing industry. My dear friend Sherine Zaklama , a qualitative marketing research manager at Rada Research and Public Relations, one of the country's top firms in the field, has just received her PhD in the field of marketing research from Shaftebury University in England. Zaklama's dissertation was about The challenges that face marketing research in developing countries, and involved an evaluation of how the marketing industry in developing countries is affected by political, economic, social and cultural factors. It's certainly a topic Zaklama is familiar with -- she has 17 years experience in the field. Congratulations to her once again!
Two prominent Turkish cultural personalities were at the Gomhouriya Theatre this week to present an exciting panorama of the Turkish arts scene, including poetry, architecture, miniature painting, Sufi literature, textiles, calligraphy, decorative arts, shadow plays and theatre. Prominent stage actress and professor Yildiz Kenter, and Talat Halman, a distinguished scholar who served as the first Turkish culture minister, wowed the audience with their saga of Turkish culture, which was basically a live documentary featuring scores of colour slides accompanied by Gylsin Onay on piano playing masterpieces by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and others.
A photo exhibit entitled Baghdad: Before the Bombs Begin to Fall opened at the American University in Cairo's Sony Gallery yesterday, and just in time, it looks like, considering that the bombs are about to start falling any day now. The photos were taken by news agency photographer Amr Nabil in Baghdad over a period of three weeks last September, and feature scenes from coffee shops, markets, the Tigris River, hospitals, cock-fights, and schools. Saddam Hussein is also there as a brooding presence in posters and statues.
Cairo Opera House Director Samir Farag will inaugurate an exhibition entitled Beauties of the Egyptian Alley on 15 March at the gallery of the Musical Library on the Opera House grounds. Organised by the Egyptian Association of Photography, the show includes 50 photos taken by 20 photographers depicting the social life and ancient buildings that characterise Egyptian alleys, whether in Cairo, Alexandria or the Western Oases.
The Shooting Club theatre troupe put on an interesting play recently, my sweets, called Marital Happiness. The happy couple in question decided that, at the start of their union, instead of sharing everything, they would literary split everything inside their house between them. Scripted by Abdel- Moneim Selim, the cast included Ahmed Garhi, Noha Ismail, Ahmed Geaisa, Karim Hamdi, Mahmoud Abdel- Raziq, Mohamed Emad, Tamer Medhat, Omar Sherif, Ali Khalid, Ahmed Abdel- Razzaq, Ahmed El-Kashef, Injy Aql and other budding talents.
Tarek El-Sawi provided sound effects for the play, the set was created by Marwa Osama and Ahmed Geaisa, and the man in charge of the entire satirical and interesting work was none other than director Mohamed El- Saadani.
Al-Ahram Weekly Online : 13 - 19 March 2003 (Issue No. 629)
Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/629/pe1.htm