LETTERS
Thank you for including in the Ambassadors on-line magazine information about the gifted cartoonist Saroukhan. I will print it, read it comfortably and pass it on to the other members of my family.
Prof. Vazken Der Kaloustian, M.D., FABP, FABMG, FCCMG
McGill University, Canada
vazken.derkaloustian@mcgill.ca
I touched briefly on the Ambassadors magazine and it looks good.
Prof. Carl Abbott, MD,FRCP,FACP
Dalhousie University, Canada
Carl.Abbott@cdha.nshealth.ca
We enjoyed very much reading the last issue of the Ambassadors. I would like to congratulate the editorial team for this remarkable magazine.
Profs. Wafia & Ismail Sallam
Cairo, Egypt
iasallam@hotmail.com
The two articles about Prof. Edward Said in both the Megastar and Profile sections were very interesting. Thanks to Essam Farag and Hakem Rustom.
Dr. Soheir El-Badramany, MD
Consultant physician and cardiologist
Cairo, Egypt
soheire@hotmail.com
I just had a quick look at your latest issue. Many thanks for publishing my
two articles relating to 'Edward Said' and ''Tunisia's Andalusian Heritage'.
It is always a pleasure to see my works appear in your fine publication.Habeeb Salloum
Toronto, Canada
habeeb.salloum@sympatico.ca
SInce the Ambassadors magazine has published several articles about Down Syndrome, I wished to inform you that our genetic services in Sultanate of Oman have ascertained 800 cases with DS, with an incidence of 1:500 live births
Dr. Anna Rajab, MD,MRCP,PhD
Consultant medical geneticist
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
drarajab@omantel.net.om
I have the great honor of speaking all over the world (at conferences and before legislatures) in favor of smoke-free workplaces. Wherever I go, I take the workers' stories with me since most people understand the issue better that way.
Joe Cherner
Founder of B.R.E.A.T.H.E.
(Bar and Restaurant Employees Advocating Together for a Healthy Environment)
USA
Joe@smokefree.org
I went through the Ambasadors' new issue, and as usual it is very interesting.
Dr. Rajab Manna
Cairo, Egypt
rajabmanna2000@yahoo.com
I am sending to you from Italy, attending the 17th course in Medical genetics on Thalassemia and related disorders in the Mediterranean with Dr. Ibrahim El-Nekhily and Dr. Randa Kamal. The course is very interesting and their are a lot of eminent professors, including the father of medical genetics, Prof. Victor McKusick
We have started a pilot study in thalassemia carrier detection in Egypt, and very soon we will have the results.Dr. Hesham Kandil, MD
Consultant pediatrician & clinical geneticist
Alexandria, Egypt
heshamhkandil@hotmail.com
I enjoyed with my wife reading the article about the evolution of Egyptian cartoons from Saroukhan to Toughan. Also, we enjoyed the articles about the 'Naughty Boy' Mahmoud El-Saadany.
Prof. Osman Nashaat, MD
Consultant pediatrician
Switzerland
permal_osman@hotmail.com
Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum Chairman, Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority, the 10th GCC E-government & Telecom Forum was held in May 24-26, 2004 at Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, UAE. The 3-day forum offered sessions that emphasized a well planned approach towards e-Government, highlighting e-initiatives by worldwide governments that have improved the delivery of government services by bringing together community & technology leaders with professionals who run worldwide e-Government projects.
Datamatix
Dubai, UAE
info@gccevents.com
GENDIA has developed a new test for fast prenatal diagnosis of the most common aneuploidies by Quantitative Fluorescent PCR (QF-PCR). The testoffers rapid prenatal diagnosis of Chromosome X, Y, 21, 13 and 18 by QF-PCR amplification of highly polymorphic Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) is an assay designed to detect common chromosome aneuploidies. The network now offers close to 500 different genetic tests.
Dr. Patrick Willems, MD, PhD
Medical Director GENDIA
Belgium
www.GENDIA.net
patrickwillems@gendia.net
We send The Ambassadors Magazine promotional information about hundreds of Turkey Tours in different regions. Please visit our website www.noahsis.com.
Noahsis Tours
Istanbul, Turkey
info@noahsis.com
I just wanted to send a brief update about the World Unity Festival. We just finished updating the new website www.worldunityfestival.com and are in the process of recruiting the other half of our (200 people total) volunteer crew and a few more production staff positions .If you know any vendors, bands or keynote speakers now is the time to get them on board.
Michael DiMartino
Global Alliance for Intelligent Arts
Massachusetts, USA
gaia@crocker.com
Regarding the article about Women of Oman in The Ambassadors Magazine (http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue8/feature.htm) which mentions that "The Kumzari language is a hotchpotch of Arabic, Portuguese, Persian, Hindi and English," I think it is being 1) belittling to the people of Musandam and 2) linguistically INCORRECT! The classification--or lineage--of Kumzari is from Indo-European to Indo-Iranian to Iranian to Western Iranian to Southwestern Iranian to Luri to Kumzari. You can view this at www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=947.
Nicholas Karavatos, MFA
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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Bert C.
Tijuana, B.C., Canada
Letter from the Chief Editor
To Prof. Refaat Kamel & Prof. John Lumley,
I
enjoyed attending the March 2004 release of your new textbook of Tropical
Surgery and the discussions about the need for a new forum for international
surgeons and experts to combat disease, ignorance and poverty through the Global
Academy of Tropical Surgery. The tremendous effort done by both of you and your
colleagues has to be recognized.
To Mr. Russel Gabbedy,
I congratulate you on your effort in publishing the Tropical
Surgery textbook through Westminister Publishing Ltd. in London. Your effort
as the project development manager of this book and publicizing it during the
WHO meeting was commendable. I also wish to send my appreciation to the
designers of the book, Julie Martin and Philip Wilson.
To Prof. Hamdy El-Sayed & H.E. Prof. Ismail Sallam
It
is essential to meet both of you in the coming meeting of the Global Academy of
Tropical Surgery in March 2005. Your presence, not only as international cardiac
surgeons, but as distinguished figures in modernizing the medical services will
be a major contribution for the building of this new organization and worldwide
campaign for better health in developing countries. You will be able to help in
deciding whether the Global Academy of Tropical Surgery should be
a college, a society or a non-profit organization? Will this campaign to combat
tropical diseases include non-surgeons, who will be the key providers of
prevention and non-surgical treatment of tropical diseases?
To
Dr. Hussein A. Gezairy
Your effort as Regional Director of EMRO-WHO and your staff to
make the tropical surgery meeting successful was very notable. It was
interesting to hear how Prof. Abu Zikry's presentation in Kasr El-Aini Hospital
of a case of hydatid cyst disease helped you a lot when you went to Saudi Arabia
as a surgeon to find several cases.
To Prof. Mahmoud Lotfi
Your excellent lecture about hydatid cyst in Iran and its
surgical management was very enlightening. I enjoyed how you presented the
epidemiology, symptomatology, and medical/surgical treatments of this disease.
In addition to your scientific expertise, it was delightful to get to know your
artistic side in poetry. The Ambassadors Magazine invites you to contribute to
our future issues.
To Prof. Hussein Al-Kaff,
Your
presence with a contingency of 18 Yemeni doctors at the tropical surgery meeting
and continuous discussions was very interesting. Your talk about female genital
mutilation in Yemen revealed interesting statistical data. It was nice to
suggest, alongside your colleagues Nasser Laswar, Director of Aden Public Health
Services; Adel Gaffer, President of the Yemeni Medical and Pharmaceutical
Syndicate; and Fayez Al-Hoshaishy that the next meeting be held in Sokatra
Island in Yemen in March 2005.
To Prof. Ahmed Fahal,
Your proposal with your Sudanese colleague Prof. Ahmed El Sayed to establish an interactive website for the global academy of tropical surgery with the correspondence addresses of its founders is a great start for global communications on these diseases.
To Prof. Tara Sharma,
It was very interesting to know how a distinguished surgeon like yourself to be fully convinced with alternative medicine and establish a center for these non-conventional services in the United States. It would be interesting to publish your story of conversion from pure surgeon to alternative medicine advocate and about your work as the director of the Center for Excellence in Integrative Medicine.
Prof. Talaat I. Farag
Chief Editor,
The Ambassadors Magazine
