UNESCO has chosen Aswan to be the city of folk art amongst the five creative cities in the world in 2006.

 

Aswan has been chosen to be the leading city of folk art, whereas Edinburgh/  Scotland has been chosen as the city of literature, Santa Fe/ New Mexico as the city of popular arts, Popayan/ Colombia as the city gastronomy and Buenos Aeros/ Argentina as the city of design.

 

Marie - Louise Dol is a French poetess and member of the International Union For Francophone Press has fallen in love with Egypt.

 

Since the first moment of her arrival in Egypt, last winter, and over her second visit, she discovered things that have been invisible even to its citizens.

 

She is not only a poetess; she comes from a French conservative family, studied medicine and nursing, then informatics.

 

Marie says that Egypt is rich in its human wealth. As to its people, it's another story. Egypt knows well how to welcome her guests, how to open her heart and home to any stranger. I've learned much from Egypt. I have been to Al Hussein, Al Azhar, Al Haram and Alexandria. I enjoyed the beauty of the northern coast and spent my happiest days in the Egyptian countryside.

 

Egypt to me is everything beautiful and nice. I've loved the sound of call to  prayer, it creates a state of awakening hat moves the hearts of Egyptians. I've even loved the noise of streets, and horns of automobiles, as they are symbol of intimate relations among people and calls for union and love and an expression of gaiety.

 

Marie-Louise Dol says that her first visit to Egypt was at the Muslim Greater Bairam. “I was very happy with the idea of sacrifice in which you can see how the rich can make the poor happy?”

She never thought of leaving Egypt after the explosions of Sharm el Sheikh. As terrorism - in her opinion - is an international phenomenon. There is no country that is immune against it. Therefore she was keen to stay in Egypt for the longest time possible to say with us “No for Terrorism”.

 

 

In the last quarter of 2005, Alexandria Library organized the second part of Einestine Conference under the title “Einestine in Egypt”, aiming at briefing specialists on the Egyptian scientific efforts in the field of relativity, and the “Unified field theory” together with an analysis of Einestine works and character.

 

 It's worth mentioning that Einstine visited to Egypt, particularly Port Said City, where he stopped to board a ship to Europe after his return from Palestine. Dr. Mustafa Musherrafa; the then Dean of the Faculty of science, at Cairo University, was one of the first Egyptian scientists who wrote on the various aspects of the “Relativity Theory”, followed by many of his students.

The necklaces inspired by the Bedwine works of Sinai, specially those made from coloured buttons, pearls and stones and which Bedouine women wear have become very popular in Italy.

 

 One of the Italian designers came to Egypt and mingled with Bedwine women and selected a collection of their innovations and sought their experience in presenting a big collection of Bedwine accessories in Italy. The necklace of Sinai woman won the biggest admiration.

 

Eclipse  of the Sun in Egypt Attracts  American  Scientists

A full American team of astronomers, researchers, professors and teachers will visit Egypt during March and April 2006 to study the eclipse of the sun that will occur during this period with a remarkable international interest.

 

That team will join a group of Egyptian researchers to study such a phenomenon that will never occur except after ten years. Researchers say that Egypt will be the best location for observing such a rare phenomenon.

 

It's worth mentioning that the best locations for observing the sun eclipse that will occur in Egypt in the coming spring, will be at the western desert close to Libyan  borders.