The naming of a Tehran street after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s assassin, Khaled Eslamboli, has long been a source of diplomatic tension and the object of repeated negotiations. Now comes news of a documentary, by the Committee for Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement (the Iranians always have the best committee names), celebrating Eslamboli. It’s called “The Execution of a Pharaoh.” This has not gone down well in Cairo. One Egyptian columnist has suggested erecting a statue of the Shah in a Cairo square. There’s an article on this is this week’s Al Ahram Weekly, but I can’t find a link.
This would be the link, i suppose?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/905/eg1.htm
Wouldn´t the square in front of the Refai Mosque be the perfect spot? A more refined approach would of course be naming it after Queen Fawzia, just kidding of course.
I’m not quite sure what to make of this. I think the Egyptians do have a point in the sense that – officially – all films need to pass through the Iranian Ershad approval process, so the government could have killed the film it they wanted to. But if Egypt really wanted reconciliation they probably wouldn’t have made a big deal about the movie. I’m sure the US embassy wasn’t too thrilled about all the talk of a Cairo-Tehran thaw that was in the news a few months ago. Dying to see it but couldnt find any clips online.
it’s khaled el esTanbolli.
Egypt and Iran: Diplomacy and documentary…
For the last few months, we’ve been hearing about an imminent political reconciliation between Cairo and Tehran. Ahmadinejad and Mubarak had pledged to swap full ambassadors, and diplomats had agreed to a renaming of the street in Tehran named …
[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment’s server IP (72.233.69.35) doesn’t match the comment’s URL host IP (72.232.101.42) and so is spam.