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Next Saturday, the great film actor, Omar Sharif, and Dr. Zahi Hawass, with a personal invitation from president Dr. Lionel Fernandez Reyma, will fly to the Dominican Republic. Mr. Sharif will be given a lifetime achievement prize for his career in the movies at the 4th annual film festival next week in Santo Domingo. The film festival will include other luminaries from the film world. Also, the Catholic University, the oldest university in the Americas, will bestow on Dr. Hawass an honorary doctorate. This will be a third honorary doctorate for Dr. Hawass, in addition to his honorary degrees from the American University in Cairo and the University of Thailand. President Reyma will be in attendance at both events, he is a great fan of Mr. Sharif’s work and even named his son Omar. The Honorable Maria Gabriella Bonetti, Dominican ambassador to Egypt announced the events this week, indicating that the two men are the most famous living Egyptians after perhaps President Mubarak and that the Dominican Republic wished to honor them for all of their fine work in their respective fields. While in Santo Domingo, the two will attend many cultural events in the capital.
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