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Articles of the author Amr Hussien
Upbeat
Last Tuesday, I enjoyed the company of many friends and hundreds of people that I don't know in an afternoon march from the Cairo Opera House to the Ministry of Culture in Zamalek. The purpose of this march was to protest against appointing Alaa Abdel-Aziz as the new Minister of Culture. Why are (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Upbeat
This week, let's take a break from music and talk about star signs, which has nothing to do with fortune telling, but it is about the characteristics of people born under a specific sign. Many people don't even know their sign. However, most of those who do, think that their sign is the best! Let's (...)

23 - 04 - 2013
Upbeat
Spring starts in March and that is why a flower fair was held on Saturday, March 30, at Orman Garden in Giza. Didn't I tell you that March is a great month? Egypt's Minister of Agriculture inaugurated the 2013 Spring Flower Fair, which saw the participation of 160 exhibitors and producers of (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
Upbeat
CAIRO - Do you believe in hypnosis? I do and that is why I attended a lecture on Friday at Al-Azhar Conference Hall about it. Although the lecture discussed other things, it focused on hypnosis and ironically enough the lecturer hypnotised everyone there! I'm serious. Before I move on to my (...)

01 - 04 - 2013
Upbeat
Before the end of this amazing month, I thought I'd write about some of the world's most talented artists who were born in March. I guess I will ignore the mediocre ones and, because I will not have enough space to include all those I like, I will only mention music artists. Rock idol Jon Bon Jovi (...)

26 - 03 - 2013
Upbeat
“Its fields are full of good things and it has provision for every day. Its granaries overflow, they reach the sky. Its ponds are full of fishes and its lakes of birds. Its fields are green with grass and its banks bear dates. He who lives there is happy and the poor man is like the great (...)

19 - 03 - 2013
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Weddings... these are things that people enjoy because they are happy occasions, at least for some. While the bride, groom and their close friends enjoy weddings, the in-laws moan and curse their bad luck for having that horrible person as a new family member. Several comments are always made about (...)

12 - 03 - 2013
Upbeat
The other day, a friend told me that he was disappointed because many Egyptian movies have been ripped off from foreign ones. I believed him, although I hardly ever watch Egyptian films. One of the four movies I have seen over the past three years was copied from an American one and I find this (...)

05 - 03 - 2013
Upbeat
This is a story that happened but never existed... or something like that. It was all over the place on Thursday, but completely denied on Saturday by the same man who supposedly made the statement. Good for him, because I think millions were going to fight him fiercely if he hadn't. Let's begin at (...)

26 - 02 - 2013
Upbeat
What is this thing called music? What is so magical about it? Not only is it used as therapy, but it is also very effective. No matter how hard I've tried to solve the mystery, I can't. I just fell in love with music at a very young age and this love grows stronger all the time. Have you ever heard (...)

19 - 02 - 2013
Upbeat
It is ironic how creeps, freaks and convicts crawl out of their pits to make highly provocative statements then disappear. I wouldn't expect such cowards to come out in the open and mingle with the people, because they know what would happen to them. The way some of them talk about demonstrators (...)

12 - 02 - 2013
Upbeat
Last week, I mentioned that a friend had been robbed in Tahrir Square on Friday, January 25. Now I have the details and it wasn't as simple as I thought! On that day two female friends of mine were sexually harassed. One of them told me that many people gathered in what seemed to be an organised (...)

05 - 02 - 2013
Upbeat
If you are abroad, then you probably have a hazy picture of what is going on here, but if you are in Egypt you will see nothing at all. Tear gas has that kind of effect and, unless you are wearing goggles, visibility is zero at certain points. Of course you cannot breathe as well without a mask. To (...)

29 - 01 - 2013
Upbeat
This is Scene One in a very interesting play and, judging by the audience's reaction, it will also be the final scene in the first and last play I have ever written and will ever write. It is a dark, cold, windy, rainy, dusty night and the sun is shining. A happy family of readers are sitting in (...)

15 - 01 - 2013
Upbeat
Last Tuesday witnessed the premiere of Mozart's two-act opera ‘The Magic Flute' in Cairo Opera House's Main Hall. This is something I couldn't have missed... so I missed it and attended the third performance. It turned out to be the last one as well, because, for security reasons, the Opera (...)

27 - 11 - 2012
Upbeat
A fortnight ago, I wrote about television talent shows dedicated to discovering new artists. The final one I mentioned was ‘The Voice', which many people in the Arab world enjoy watching every week. Just to remind you how it works on ‘The Voice', you have four acclaimed singers sitting with their (...)

20 - 11 - 2012
Upbeat
I sometimes wonder what have we gained from the revolution? Did it change anything? Most things are still as bad if not worse than what they used to be like. Corruption is everywhere and music is not an exception. In fact corruption in that field is monstrous. Authorities and establishments that (...)

13 - 11 - 2012
Upbeat
Two days ago, November 4, many Egyptians celebrated Valentine's Day. That's how early we are sometimes. It all depends on the Cairo traffic – you might go out thinking you'll reach your destination on February 14 of next year, but if the traffic is flowing you will get there... the day before (...)

06 - 11 - 2012
Upbeat
So I'm back. I was away for a while and it's a long story that I'm not planning to write about. In fact, I was going to write about something entirely different but I guess I will postpone it till next week, because there is something that I would like to share with you. It's an old story that (...)

29 - 10 - 2012
Upbeat
CAIRO - Life in general has become quite boring and even most music performances are dull and predictable – I know what to expect exactly... they will be a few minutes late, that particular vocalist will sing out of key, they've hired a horrible sound engineer, etc. Finally, I was invited to (...)

24 - 09 - 2012
Upbeat
Summer is almost over and, in a matter of days, autumn will officially start. I've always loved summer and frankly I get depressed in winter. Luckily winter is not that cold in Egypt. January and February are very cold, but in March things start getting better. All this talk is about Cairo of (...)

17 - 09 - 2012
Upbeat
I am not writing an article this week. Go away... Leave me in peace... I'm in a state of shock. OK, I'll tell you the story briefly – give me 1,000 words or so – if you promise to walk out as soon as I finish. I was very disappointed to see the picture of our wonderful friend in the newspaper. (...)

10 - 09 - 2012
Upbeat
CAIRO - More than three-and-a-half years ago, I attended a Christmas concert given by soprano Neveen Allouba and her students. One of them sang Mariah Carey's ‘All I want for Christmas Is You'. Of course choosing a Mariah song is a challenge, so I expected to be greatly disappointed, but when that (...)

03 - 09 - 2012
Upbeat
CAIRO - One of the best rewards any writer can get is positive feedback, which is what I got from a very nice lady called Nihad Allam, who also happens to be a music critic. She was commenting on my article published on the 31st July, about songs with the word ‘water' in their title or in the (...)

28 - 08 - 2012
Upbeat
CAIRO - Who smokes? Is it me? Is it you? Is it him? Is it her? Is it it? Is it us? Is it them? OK, so after we have finished with the verb ‘to smoke', let me tell you that smoking is not only a very bad habit, but it is also a very bad rabbit... Sorry, I wanted to say that smoking is fatal. Now I (...)

17 - 08 - 2012
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