I see to my horror that two months have passed before I have again put pen to paper (well, the laptop equivalent) to give you a hint of what has been going on and what we hope will go on with the British Egyptian Society.
Dr. Hegazy’s talk on 4th February was well attended and we were extremely pleased that he was accompanied by Mr. Farid Mansour, Secretary of the Egyptian British Friendship Society in Cairo. Baroness Symons was in the Chair and we were impressed by the frank way that Dr. Hegazy handled the “questions and answers session”.
Last month our Executive Committee member, Ms. Dina Soliman Abdel Meguid, married Dr. Morten Pedersen at the Egyptian Consulate in Lowndes Square. The Treasurer, Mt. Mohamed Nasr Farid, and I attended and I hope, if I can work out how to create a zip file, those photos are also on our website.
On 11th February Baroness Symons formally presented Enham Alamein with the restored El Alamein Club Scrap Book from 1943. This is a unique record and the result of restoration is that it will survive for many more years to come. Again, I am hoping that the photos of this event are on our website also.
Now, things to come. I have sent a circular to everyone informing you of the talk by Mr. David Arnold, President of the American University in Cairo, at SOAAS on 25th March at 6.15 for 6.30pm. President Arnold is an excellent speaker and we do offer refreshments afterwards. In May we hope to have our AGM which will be followed by a talk by Sir Derek Plumbly who, until last December, was HBM’s Ambassador to Egypt. He has just received a posting to Sudan. Sir Derek is a brilliant speaker; not to be missed.
We are still working on the Annual Dinner in June; location and speaker will be announced in my next blog. In October we will have an illustrated by Dr. Jean-Marcel Humbert who is the curator of the “Napoleon et Egypt” exhibition which opens at the IMA in Paris early October and runs for a few months. Participants in our Paris trip on the first week of December will get a privately escorted tour of the exhibition by Dr. Humbert.
Our 1st “Sir Michael Weir Annual Lecture” is due to take place at the Institute of Civil Engineers at OneGeorgeStreet on 27th November. The Rt. Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes OM has agreed to give it. He was an old friend of Michael’s and spoke movingly at his Memorial Service in St. James’s Church in 2006.
Finally, there will be a Middle East Association Trade Mission to Egypt in May. Again, details of this should be elsewhere on our website.
May I add that I do enjoy hearing from our members, or even from the people who read this! My e.mail is noelrands@compuserve.com so do write to me with your comments and also suggestions for future events.
Best regards
Noel Rands, Secretary
10th March 2008
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