Ambassador Hussein Ibrahim Sharif of Egypt, asked the intervention of the Foreign Ministry in Brasilia to ban a photo exposition in Porto Alegre, capital of Brazil’s southern state, Rio Grande Do Sul, because it is “offensive” to the Egyptian people. At the same time, a committee of 23 persons “representing the Arab community of Brazil,” requested the Federal Police to remove from the exposition 150 pictures, taken in Israel and Egypt, which allegedly “show” Egyptian military secrets and the negative side of the Arab countries.
The spokesman for the committee, Hamid Iskandar, said that the photos “which show Egyptian women and children begging, and men smoking hashish, is aimed at demoralizing the seven million Arabs and their descendents, living in Brazil, including the Justice Minister Alfredo Buzaid.”
Photographer Assis Hoffmann, who is picture editor of “Folha Da Manha,” a mass circulation daily, said that during his recent 10-day visit to Egypt, he was arrested three times, but succeeded in taking pictures of military bases, including MIG warplanes, while flying in an Egyptian commercial liner from Cairo to Aswan and Luxor. The Chief of the Federal Police said that the request is being examined.
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