I found this stanza from poetry in one of the Egyptian blogs and I thought it is worth sharing  

Rays & Shadows: يا بنات إسكندرية

Khaled ,the owner of Rays & Shadow blog was already inspired by a Stanza he found in a mailing group written by Phillip Slattery under the name the Women of Cairo

Eyes made of the Egyptian night
Sparkling like an oasis pool
Skin the color of the endless sand
Beauty of forgotten goddesses lives on

beautiful is n't it ??

 well Khaled Reda made the Alexandrian version of it , go and read it 

Glistening water and sunny sun
Bronzy, silky, shiny skin
Blue black starry night
Make a majestic manhood
To royal eyes, plight

It is good to know that the women of Cairo still inspire poets along with the famous girls of Alexandria

By the way this is a famous Arabic piece of Music"well it was actually Turkish piece of music" from the Turath "Classical Arabic music" , it is called {Banat Iskindria}"girls of Alexandria"  , It is very famous and they are different versions and I got almost every version of it as I love it so much

Here is the Loreena Mckennitt's version from the "Girls of Alexandria" from her latest album "An Ancient Muse"

 
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 The partial painting is for the famous "Bahri Girls" by Mahmoud Said

This is an excellent artist Mr. Nabil Lahoud not only has the talent but also respects his Egyptian background and wants to share with the whole world.

His style combining the wonderful folklore of Egypt with the sceneries of the real Egyptian life is magnificent ,I really love it

His inspiration as I hinted above is the Egyptian folklore , the scenes from the country side in Delta , the villages in upper Egypt and the allies of Cairo .

One of his favorite topics is the Egyptian proverbs presenting them in paintings by using scenes

His style reminds me with the style of the folk painting styles of knights like Abu Zaid El-Halaly , Ali El-Zabaak and others , the use of the symbols like the eye and the hand palm and of course the most significant character which is the vivid colors

It is highly recommend website to see and to share , I would like you to buy something like painting from this gallery and this artist because it is deserved to be bought if you want something really Egyptian , folk Egyptian , not ancient Egyptian in your house

Nabil Lahoud Fine art gallery "Unfortunately his website is down now but I think it would come back soon insh Allah hopefully :)

Anyhow you can read more info about him here and about his painting "for Sale" there

Ok I received a respond from the Viscount Anthony of Alexandria in less than 24 hours about the Duchess of Alexandria inquiry email I sent to her and it seems that some people are so bothered by my logic questions , already I do not know who is the Viscount Anthony of Alexandria , it seems those people are distributing titles as they like , well nothing wrong in that but they should not associate it with my country or its town , one is Alexandria another one is Aswan, not to mention that even in time of Monarchy we did not have these titles

Anyhow here is the respond of the Viscount

Dear Mrs
To begin I do not of a Mrs Liala but I do know of a Princess Liala.  The Royal Council and I do know who SHE is but we do not know who you are and if you are at all legitimate.  You might want to correct your email address as it suggests that you live in the UK not EGYPT.
The Council and I wish not to waste any of our precious time regarding Princess Liala or about any correspondence.  I will not forward this email to Princess Liala and any more emails suggested from you will be overlooked if not deleted.  Private contracts and any specific type of documents are Princess Liala's concern as well as the Royal Councils, not to be shown to the public for interests sake...
His Excellency

Viscount Anthony

of Alexandria

House of Fuad

Someone is very very angry and refuses to answer the question ,by the way my email in my other email account ends with ".co.UK" ,this person seems to know that email domains that reflect where I live but you can say he just want to attack me despite the fact the Duchess came to my blog claiming that she is the daughter of king Farouk and he was killed and how she remembers him till now !!

Anyhow the house of Fuad brought it to themselves , with my all respect this is unreal duchess claiming to be the daughter of King of Egypt living the fantasy of Royalty where as the Real princesses are living down to earth ,struggling to get back their rights in this country

I don't want to use the word impostor but I think nothing forbids me to do so ,already as soon as you land in her website you will know that especially when you read the title she gave to her Duchess of Alexandria !! or H.I.H , which is the abbreviation to her Imperial Highness !! Imperial on what basis ?? oh yes because her aunty and uncle ,the Emperor and Empress of Persia !! Aunty and Uncle !!?? For God Sake the Shah had divorced Princess Fawiza since the 1940s , what this woman is speaking about

This woman has no connection with the Royal Family of Mohamed Ali , she even did not attend the funeral of her so-called Sister from couple of years , she even put the picture of King Farouk's sisters as Farouk's daughters !!

All the photos in the Website in the Egyptian Royal family section are taken either from the Abdeen Presidential Palace website or Queen Nariman official website or pictures that are available from the Internet , I think I became an expert ,I have been tracing these photos for years now

Even If Farouk had married some French or Italian or who ever western lady he met in exile ,he knew very well that any kid from that lady would not inherit any title or any privilege what so ever according the law that was put by his father late Fouad I , the law says that only the kids who are born from Egyptian mother only have the right for royal privileges including titles and right of throne , already King Farouk had two half brother and sister from his father ,not to mention it was already over , no more monarchy !!

I will not go for her mother , the so-called Italian Princess who was officially announced dead in 1944 , already that lady was born in 1902 oh yes , older than king Farouk "born in 1920" by two decades ,according Liala Fuad's version of Story they met and married in 1957 ,of course it is the first time I heard that Farouk loved women older than him , I mean his reputation was only for younger girls !!

I don't know why this lady and her royal council refuse to show the so-called documents that substantiated her story and claims , it is better that being accused of lying !!

You do not have royalty in order to be become popular and charitable,strange many real royalties wished that they were commoners including King Farouk himself

I don't know where is the Egyptian Embassy in Australia from this , Duchess of Alexandria and Duchess of Aswan !!?? Already I wonder where are the king Farouk's children from all that ?? I mean they stood against Irma's claims that she was married to their dad  

Again this lady is too positive from the documents and proofs she got why she does not come out with it ,this is what logic says ..

look if they want to live the title fantasy with duchess and viscount ,they can choose any other town in the world but please stay away from Egypt , Aswan and Alexandria

The worst thing ever is to make a lie and to live it to the degree that you forget it is a lie

well I thought I would give it a shoot to try these online design shops , and if you have a sharp eye you will notice that I put an ad for Cafe press in the sidebar ,I tried it made a gallery there , but it did not work , already I do not like the idea that you only have one design for the single shop and if you want more than you have to purchase the pro-account

Anyhow I found this new service Zazzle , I came by accident to it and I was so impressed by the options they give whether for design or the ease of use

and so in some spare time I tried to upload some of my designs"wow my designs big words" ,with little help of some words ,I made couple of things and here they are "I won't get any money from it because Egypt is not included in their country list ,I don't know but I said I will give it a try , I like to try new things"

 
create & buy custom products at Zazzle

I wish there is something similar in Egypt,really I love the idea that you customize your own cloth and stuff

 Everything's made of ice at Dubai bar - Yahoo! News

we got a common proverb in Egypt that says in Arabic:

اللى عنده مال و محيره يجيب حمام و يطيره

If you have Money and you don't know what to do with it ,Just bring a pigeon flee and let it

This means if we have a lot of money and don't know what you do with it ,you can just spend it in anything useless

Seriously I don't see the benefit of such bar what is the great thing of having such ice-bar ??

Dubai seemed to become more and more big fairyland still it is more consuming that producing city , it can do much better and here I mean the scientific research , with all these billions Arab scientists can be gathered and funded in Dubai for scientific research

Please if you understand Arabic ,I ask to go to visit the Egyptian POWs.net immediately , exactly the the film section and to be accurate just visit this new page in the film section

At last I found the very important Al-Jazeera documentary "Top Secret: The Way to Atlit" , this documentary can be a strong evidence itself as it includes the confessions of the Israelis whether from the historians and war veterans

It is in Arabic now but I am working on adding English subtitles to it

This is the first documentary about the Egyptian POWs and it was rarely aired after its first show time in Al-Jazeera

I can't believe myself seriously , this is a treasure I found by accident , I don't know why on heaven and earth they did not announce it more publicly

The Bibliotheca Alexandria opened a website that includes the magnificent encyclopedia of the Description of Egypt "Le Description de l' Egypte" online  for free ,

The whole original book in French with the complete set of text and wonderful graphics about the history of Egypt

I believe some of you may not be familiar with "Le Description de l' Egypte" ,mes amis c'est un francais grand livre ,sorry my friends this was a great French book made by the scientists and researchers who came with Napoleon's expedition about modern and ancient Egypt

This book was the first in the modern age to describe Egypt whether its history ,its ancient history , we are talking here about the first nucleus of the Egyptology or its society , the society of that time , the French were very interested in the Egyptian life at that time when they came , it was like a new world to them

The Marvelous  of the book was not in the detailed description only but the detailed illustrated description , there were no cameras but there were great artists who captured the tiniest thing you can imagine in this country with a sharp eyes

The customs and traditions, the buildings ,the people , the measurements of the buildings ,even the customs people wear across Egypt ,women,men and children

Till now these illustrations of that great book are used in post cards and in large painting they are fabulous

My late Grand father knew the man who had translated it from French to Arabic , late Zohair El-Shayeb , who had spent all his life to bring it to the Arabic reader, you will be surprised to know that he did it on his own without the help of the culture ministry, in fact he published it himself and even today his widow and daughters have their own publishing house , I forgot to say that the state did not honor this man except when he died I guess

anyhow this website is really great and you must visit it , of course the bad thing is that the text of the book is in French , well it is the original ,there is no direct translation

I want you to see the Plate volumes ,to see the wonderful illustrations

Anyhow here is the English translation of the book below the link , you must have this book ,I already got several editions from the Arabic translated books

Link to (¯`Description de l’Egypte Digital Collection`¯)

Before Star wars and Forbidden Planet there was Metropolis 1927

I found about this treasure film by accident ,already I know that I saw scenes in it the promo of the famous TV Show "OSCAR" in the channel Two when I was a kid

I began to dig more and more about it because I love the following :

1. Art Deco of the 1920s style
2. The Futuristic films
3. The political-social films
4. The Sci-Fi Films
5. The visual effects in the films
6. The wonderful story
7. Black and white film

You will be surprised that this silent film was may be the first Sci-Fi presented in the history of the cinema in the world and you will be surprised more with the visual effects and techniques that were used in that film

It is enough to know that it was the most expensive film produced back then , as far as I read this film costed what it is equal 200 million dollars in year 2005 back at its time

Strangely it was not produced in Hollywood , no Hollywood did not produce these kinds of films , it was produced in Germany

The film plot is similar to H.G.Well's Time Machine ,the future society that is classified in to parts the very rich who live in the skyscrapers and the very poor who live down in the slums , of course the very rich in Metropolis are not the pretty Greek gods alike creatures and the poor are the ugly beasts , no may be I used a bad example

Anyhow Metropolis City is from two class the rich thinkers who live in the sky "the minds" and the poor workers "the hands" who live in earth , the poor workers want to rebel against their masters yet they are waiting for the mediator "the heart" whom the beautiful Maria promised them that will come eventually to save them and bring justice , the mediator , the long time waited hero people are always waiting to come , strangely the mediator turns the last man they expected,the son of the same man they hated , who began to believe in their cause

The film was accused to be promoting communism and fascism , I don't know about these accusation more I believe it is an anti-capitalistic but not to the level of the communism

Here is the trailer