Arabic News Daily Page for 7/17/2001
Daily Edition - Tuesday, July 17, 2001
- A sport tourist festival in Luxor
Egyptian Mahmoud khalaf, head of Luxor Supreme Council agreed on holding a tourist and sportive festival the city so as to revive the pharaonic sport games that have been practised by the ancient Egyptians and their grandsons uptill now. All these games were figurated in the form of inscriptions on the walls of the temples. Egypt, Sports, 7/17/2001 - More foreign investments in oil, gas exploration
The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Sameh Fahmi, yesterday emphasized the importance of luring more investments in oil and natural gas mega projects, especially for research, exploration, production, field development and exports. Egypt, Economics, 7/17/2001 - Mohamed Oweis: the nationalist painter
The painter Mohamed Oweis was born in 1919 at a village in the southern governorate of Beni Suif. He intermingled with nature and farmers and developed his artistic talent there. Egypt, People, 7/17/2001 - Assistance to Africa is low, Morocco deplores
Public assistance to development devoted to Africa represent only 18 percent of all external resources, Moroccan foreign affairs and cooperation minister, Mohamed Benaissa, said Tuesday. Regional-Morocco, Politics, 7/17/2001