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Mamdouh Ismail is the man of the Mubarak era; he did not get rich except in his time. No one remembers or knew him in 1970s during
Suddenly in the last 20 years Mamdouh Ismail became the sole controller in the navigation and transportation in the red sea. He collected billions not millions from transporting Egyptians coming and going to Saudi Arabia alone, imagine the numbers of Egyptians whether from the expats working in Saudi Arabia coming to home in holiday seasons or only the numbers of the pilgrims going and coming to the Holy Land.
Ismail made an Empire in the last 20 years, he owned about 21 ferries. His company was exempted from taxes and do not ask me why or how!!
He was appointed as the Chairman of the Red Sea ports authority for some years. Already this should not happen because with my all due respect this man does not have a university degree, second there would be a conflict of interest because this agency inspects the companies.
Ismail is a NDP member and he was appointed by President Mubarak in the Shura Council “The senates” and till this moment his membership has not been suspended despite he was accused by the General prosecutor in a highly sensitive public opinion case.
It is disgusting because I remember what happened with MP Anwar Al Sadat who turned to be innocent and still was expelled from the Parliament!!
Ismail is a very close friend to Zachariah Azami, Mubarak’s chief of staff; Azami did not deny his friendship with Ismail, the friendship which is said to help Ismail to get away from the blood of 1035 Egyptians.
There are some rumours that Ismail was not convicted because he was not the only involved, there are other partners he did not mention but if he were convicted, he would expose them especially that it was said that he was the agent on behalf of the real owners of the ferry!! I think Mamdouh had other partners in his company, but he was not an agent but rather a partner.
Mamdouh Ismail fled Egypt to UK to London, where he is staying away from the law ,there is no extradition agreement between Egypt and UK. Till now he is London despite the rule of the court , he is too afraid to return to Egypt where he could be killed by the hands of the victims’ families , who are mostly from Upper ,the land of vengeance !! His son Amr is currently protected by the Police 24 hours; they know what they are dealing with. Still Mamdouh should not feel safe in London either. I read that there is a group of Egyptian businessmen in Netherlands who are going to Sue him in London, I wish this new is true and they do it.
Mamdouh Ismail owns the following companies in which I beg you to boycott especially his hotels
X Concorde El-Salam at Misr El Gadida, Cairo
X Concorde Sharm El-Sheikh, Sinai.
Please boycott his hotels and tourism company
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Abrashi in his show on Dream TV 2 in an exclusive interview attacking the officials who are refusing to give her son the Egyptian Passport up till this moment along with the rest of his inheritance in Egypt. It seems that there were funds by the name of Al Gamal in Cairo not to mention his investments in Sinai.
Egyptian Channel. For me it is not less than Ahmed Fouad II interview in fact it was more explosive.”I wonder why Ricardo never thought of hosting Daniel or his mother !!??” Daniel was in Egypt by the way.
was the real son of Al Gamal.
book “Magda”. Nafea was an arm dealer and air fighter who fought in Vietnam and do not ask me why. It seems that his book was full of lots of fiction despite it was authorized by the Intelligence , I do not know may be they let him speak like this because he is an old man. I respect his history and I even used to like him in couple of movies,also believe it or not he said some couple of incidents that were true about some artists , still he should not consider a trusted source. I remember late legendary Mohamed Nassim once commented on the marriage of El-Gamal’s widow from Nafea in this way on TVand his widow married Ihab Nafea …:(I can’t get here it as he said but I felt that as Egyptian man,he disrespected his marriage , after being married to a hero ,she married a selfish man who could not remember in the end of his life the number of women he married or even slept with !!
parachute and opposite to what was known ,Nafea never had met his father.Joe Biden was chosen to be Obama’s vice in the elections. To know 
more about Joe Biden , check his page in Wikipedia. I think Obama and his party chose the Senator from Delaware to attract the White middle and working classes. It is a smart move.
Unfortunately I do not like Biden so much because he is with the crazy idea to divide Iraq based on religion and ethnics ,yes turning it to hundred pieces !!
I just want to ask how Iraq used to live all that time in piece before the Americans and I am not speaking about the Saddam era but beyond it.
On the other hand in the other camp there is a talk that McCain will 
choose Mitt Romney as vice , it is not yet confirmed but it was leaked to the Time magazine. Also Joseph Liberman’s name is circulating too. McCain was under fire lately because of the number of his houses in which he can’t remember !!
By the way here is another nice photo gallery for Obama’s family in Time.com
Also there is a nice historical slideshow if you want to learn more about the United States history concerning its worst vice presidents.
I should seize this opportunity and remind you that in the last 26 years we have not got a Vice President ,Mubarak has not chosen one yet after all those years !!
Image source : Time magazine and Getty images
I do not defend in a way or another Naguib Sawiris , he is just a rich man who thinks just because his family name was in Forbes and Arabian business ,he can say what ever he wants in his mind with no respect to anything. But I think it is fair if we are going to speak about his relations with the Israelis ,we must speak about the other close regime business prominent icons relations with the Israelis.
The media is speaking about Sawiris’s relations with the Israelis after daily Maariv revealed that Ehud Barak, the current Israeli Defense minister tried to convince both Olmert and the Shin Bet to let Sawiris and OT to own shares in the Israeli telecommunications company “Partner Communications”. The story goes like this if you are following OT news ,you will know that the Egyptian Telecommunications giants got share in Hong Kong Hutchison telecommunication international limited, HT itself owns a telecommunication company in Israel called Partner Communication aka Orange Israel , yes Orange just like Mobinil. Partner Communication is the second Mobile operator in Israel.
Now OT owns about 19.3% which means it already owns 9% of the shares in the Israeli company ,no one complained or knew about this in Egypt despite Mobinil did not announce still you can know. OT as usual wants to increase its shares in the Asian giant in to 23% which is more than 10% of shares in the Israeli company and here lies the problem because the Israeli telecommunication law implies that The foreign companies can’t own more than 10% of the Shares in the telecommunication companies except after taking the approval the security agencies including the Shin Bet that refused the Egyptian offer which was originally targeting the Asian telecom giant and thus the whole deal in Asia is facing trouble. The Shin Bet unlike us thinks in the future , this is an Egyptian company in the end , we can be listening to their phone calls, they do not give damn to Sawiris and his multinational companies , they do not give damn to his opinions or his background , it is an Egyptian company and despite we have a Peace agreement we are still considered a potential future enemy , the south front is always in their mind.
Now Sawiris used his connections to try to convince the Israelis 
through the wife of Barak , Nili Priel. Priel was accused by the Israeli media of using her husband position to create connections with Israel business elite.She owned a PR Company specialized in bringing together the foreign business me and the Israeli officials using her husband influence.There was an inquiry regarding that company of hers in Israel currently . She closed this company by the way. I think the Sawiris affair was revealed among the investigation.
Sawiris got to Priel through an American friend and partner.
This is the whole story from A to Z
It is not a surprise to me because after all this man always loves to invest his money in countries the relations with the political ruling class are playing an important rule in the economic decision making process.
But fair is fair if you are going to judge for this ,despite he did not and won’t confess it , you must judge other especially in the ruling class who got business with the Israelis.
Go and judge Ahmed Ezz whose steel that can’t be found in Egypt is used in building the apartheid wall in Palestine and refusal.
Go and judge Hussein Salem who is exporting natural gas to Israel in the lowest price ever despite the public refusal.
If you are going to open this file ,please open as it should be.
On the other hand I am impressed by the Israeli telecommunications laws that protect their privacy from Foreign control, of course this is due their national security policy unlike us at all ,also the transparency , Maariv is not exposing Naguib rather than Barak and his wife and how they are using the official position for their gain.
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He may be the 17th in modern pentathlon Olympic final results but 
we all should be proud with 21 years old Amr El-Geziry for his new Olympic record in 200 meter free Style swimming in 1 minute and 55.86 second , Mash Allah.
He took this late place because of his results in fencing and shooting scores.
I think if I have the right to choose , I would make leave the pentathlon and concentrate in Swimming.
We are all proud of him ,yes he did not return with a medal , but he achieved something he should be honoured for.
By the way the modern pentathlon includes shooting, fencing, swimming, equestrian and running, in that order ,yeah our Young man did all this.