Over the last weekend the world was treated to something that has been a long time coming. The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum – the GEM. I went to the original Museum in Cairo many years ago, as a young fish, and was captivated – but it was old and fusty back then, with many glass display cases covered in dust and containing equally tired…
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History, never repeats, sang the Split Enz, except that it does repeat, all the time. Time after time after time, humankind ends up doing exactly the same things that our grandfathers did, and follow exactly in their footsteps, only to crash and burn, just like their fathers did. The world seemed to sing out in agreement with the removal of Hosni Mubarak, and then the toppling…
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We were going to call this post “Cairo Knife Fight” but there is a band going by that name already – prescient marketing, I would have thought, given the current political turmoil. Instead, the current title refers to the immense ripping off that Mubarek has done to the people of Egypt. News yesterday reports that he and his family have amassed a fortune of $40 billion…
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