[Foundation-l] FYI: Welcome to this years Wikimania site: Egypt, the land with cultur ministers with special taste in history, culture and all the good things

[Pharos]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Robert Stojnic <rainmansr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mathias Schindler wrote:
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>>On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Robert Stojnic <rainmansr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>I find a couple of things fishy about this news:
>>>1) it seems to be published by israeli media only (no other major news
>>>agencies)
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>>http://www.egynews.net/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hzMxMjkwAXIwMDbx8jAyNLQ8egYBNzo2ATE_2CbEdFANYT_Ag!/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/migration/ertu/news_knowledge_art/2008052117542404901321
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>>The article mentiones a parliamentary debate from May 10th in which
>>the statement was made - apparently in response to some statement from
>>the "Brotherhood".
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>
> Well spotted! :)
> Anyway, my google translate is a bit murky... he seems to be denying the
> allegations, saying they where out of context, and he says that they
> actually do a restauration of a synagoge as a world heritage site in
> egypt, and not trying to burn it down...
> Anyone speaking arabic better than google translate? :)

I don't read Arabic, but it appears the conversation went something
like this (as he retells it):

Brotherhood person: Egyptian libraries are full of Israeli books!
Culture Minister: No they're not!
Brotherhood person: Yes, they're full of them.
Culture Minister: There isn't one Israeli book in an Egyptian library.
 If any are found, I'll burn them myself!

Thanks,
Pharos