Egypt's Window Dressing

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue
On Cairo's Adly Street
Tuesday 30 October 2007

A Wake - with a very few hand selected invitees.

A propaganda campaign spearheaded by the Egyptian Government.

Egyptian Jewry recognizes those campaigns very well. We know very well the manipulation and exploitation methods employed by the Egyptian Government. – make a big deal of nothing - These will no longer work with us.

All of our synagogues and institutions are in need of repair badly. Making a big commotion over one synagogue does not appease the Jews from Egypt.

Please stop talking about establishing a Museum.! A Musuem is for King Tut and the pyramids, not for a thriving society

A propaganda campaign spearheaded by the Egyptian Government.

All of our synagogues and institutions are in need of repair badly. Making a big commotion over one synagogue does not appease the Jews from Egypt.

Please stop talking about establishing a Museum.! A Musuem is for King Tut and the pyramids, not for a thriving society

CAIRO, a Short Trip:

Impressions	Retour au Caire
Back to Cairo

*Back to Cairo*	Retour au Caire
23 October 2007
I saw the signs of your Islamisation without concession But could not cry I saw your Pyramids, your noseless Sphinx staring at me But did not cry I saw your veiled young women wondering who I was But did not cry I saw your lunatic traffic and crossed at the peril of my life But did not cry I saw your indestructible lions guarding that bridge so often crossed But did not cry I saw Groppi, à l'Américaine and my Extaday Hotel But even then I did not cry I saw my street, my house, its shuttered balcony But still I did not cry I saw the Bawab, told him I had lived there 50 years ago But did not want to cry I saw my empty Synagogue well guarded by numerous Shawish Then the tears gushed forward! Suzy Vidal (Sultana Latifa)	j'ai revu ton islamisation incontournable et definitive Mais je n'ai pas pleuré j'ai revu tes Pyramides, ton Sphynx défiguré immuable Mais je n'ai pas pleuré J'ai revu tes lions qui gardent le pont jadis traversé Mais je n'ai pas pleuré J'ai revu tes femmes voilées insouciantes me regardant Mais je n'ai pas pleuré J'ai revu ton trafic ahurissant, tes claxson assourdissants Mais je n'ai pas pu pleuré J'ai revu le Ciné Metro, Groppi, à l'Americaine Mais je n'ai toujours pas pleuré J'ai revu ma rue, ma maison volets fermés La non plus je n'ai pas pleuré J'ai revu ma Synagogue, vide de nous, mais si bien gardée Et je n'ai pu que pleurer Suzy Vidal (Sultana Latifa)