Last updated July 22, 2010
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Anyone for Cairo?
Members who have visited our colleagues at the Philatelic Society of Egypt in Cairo in the past have returned full of admiration and tales of overwhelming hospitality. Soon there is another chance to enjoy the delights because Dr Sherif Samra, President of the PSE, announces that an exhibition - open to all to display, even as little as a single frame - will be held over the weekend of November 5-7 at the Opera House in the Exhibition Grounds on Gezira. Those with memories of Cairo 1991 will recall that this is just across the road from the Sheraton Towers Hotel where we have spent many happy visits. As an initial approach, please contact our President, John Sears.
Invitation to Japan We are delighted to announce that Mahmoud Ramadan (ESC 358), Egyptian Commissioner to Philanippon, the Japan World Exhibition being held in Yokohama from July 28 to August 2 next year, is well on the road to recovery after extensive open-heart surgery in Oxford and Cairo, and wish him well. Mahmoud is keen to see lots of Egypt in Japan, and reminds ESC members who are also members of the Philatelic Society of Egypt that they may exhibit under his guardianship. He will be happy to hear from all interested at m.ramadan@medmarkcom.com.eg. Entries close on October 1; for those less inclined to roam the UK Commissioner is Frank Walton. Suez Canal "Great Collection" David Feldman, the Geneva-based auctioneers, announce that Postal Services in the Suez Canal Zone, the collection formed by our late member Samir Fikry as the follow-up to his outstanding Nile and Sphinx collections, has been added to its lavishly illustrated "Great Philatelic Collections" series of books. The collection won Large Gold medals in Germany and Italy last year; as an alternative to paying $75 plus postage for the book, 32 of its sheets are displayed on Samir's website at postal history suez |