PRESS RELEASE No. 47

1 August 2006

A lecture titled "What India Means to me" at the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture, Cairo, on August 28, 2006

Within the framework of its various cultural activities, the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) is organizing a lecture titled "What India Means to me" by Mr. Kamel Zoheiri, a veteran columnist with Al-Gomhouria newspaper and a well known journalist in the Arab Pres World at 7 pm on Monday, August 28, 2006, at the Centre's premises at 23, Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo.

    Mr. Kamel Zoheiri was born in 1927. He graduated from Cairo University in 1947 and obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Arabic Literature from Sorbonne University in Paris in 1950. He worked as an Arabic Announcer in All India Radio and as Ahram Correspondent in Delhi in 1949. He worked as a lawyer in 1952, Managing Director of Rose el Youssef magazine from 1955 to 1964, Editor-in-Chief of Dar El Helal Establishment during 1964-1969, Chairman of the Egyptian Press Syndicate during 1968-1971, Board Chairman of Rose el Youssef during 1969-1971, Chairman of Arab Journalists Federation 1976 and Secretary General of Arab Journalists Federation in 1986.

    Mr. Zoheiri has written and published several books such as: The Indignant (1960), No Whispering (1964), Socialist Encyclopedia (1968), The World from the Keyhole (1974), The Nile in Danger (1980) and other books. Mr. Zoheiri has been awarded: The Order of Merit, First Grade 1988, the Medal of Honour from the World Journalists Organization in Prague and The Golden Key of Damascus from Syria in 1972.

For further details, please contact the Centre: Tel: 3933396 / 3960071

          All are cordially invited.