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The frist part of this recording is an interview with the Archbishop of the Aremenian Church in Turkey, Mesrob Mutfayan about the state of the church and the Armenian community in Turkey. The second part is a press conference with Natig Aliyev, the Director and President of the State...
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In this press conference, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, ʿAmrū Muḥammad Mūsā, talks about the-then upcoming MENA Conference in Cairo and the recent developments in the Middle-East peace process.Side A:
The Foreign Minister states that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s newly...
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Background:In this press conference, the Minister of the Business Sector, ʿĀṭif Muḥammad ʿAbīd, and Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Ḥāfiẓ, the Chief Executive Officer of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, talk about their efforts to encourage the business sector to work together with the ministry to...
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Dr. Farūq al-Baz (brother of Usāma al-Bāz, political advisor to President Mubārak) is the Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is also an Associated Faculty member at the Department of...
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The following tape concerns a recording for an EO radiobroadcast of Cornelis Hulsman interviewing a Jordan politician; ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Rawābdah in 1995; he became the Prime Minister of Jordan in 1999. The interview is in regards to the Jordan-Israeli peace settlements.
The rest of the...
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Yemeni Minister of Tourism, Dr. ʿAbd al-Ṣarāfi and Yemeni officials accompanying him, speak about Western tourism to Yemen, investment opportunities and economy. He particularly addresses concerns over tourists’ safety in light of recent kidnappings, Yemeni agriculture, and the...
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This recording concerns the history of Red Sea tourism in Egypt, the preservance of the eco-system in relation to tourism and the drop in tourism following the Luxor massacre of 1997. A German-Egyptian couple outlines their hotel business’ rise at the Egyptian Red Sea coast. In a press...
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Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording: the restoration of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo, Egypt, and the Jordanian economist ʾUmayyah Ṭūqān’s views on the MENA summit in 1995.
Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, known as the Hanging Church was built...
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This is a press conference in the running – up to the third MENA conference in Cairo and the panel consists of Mr. Blood from the World Economic Forum, Farīd Munīr of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Peter Goepfrich, -Executive Director of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce....
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Interviewer: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Language of interview: English (original interview) English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Approval: Requested and no objection received
This is an interview with Dr. Kamāl al-Hilbāwī, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood...