The Egyptian Gazette
Letter to the Editor
5 April 2008
Sub: Another DAVOS!!!
Dear Sir,
I KNEW IT!
Sharm El-Sheikh will ‘host’ the “World Economic Forum in the Middle East”, from May 17 to 19, 2008.
Another ‘DAVOS’, again in May, and again in Sharm El-Sheikh!
What’s in a name?!
So, here we go again, paying for the Dear Visitors, and then we get hysterical when consumer goods, food prices, and everything else, shoots sky-high, because WE pay for the Dear Guest’s one-week stay, who are naturally placed at the most expensive and deluxe hotels …again in Sharm El-Sheikh…for FREE, meals included!
Like as if Sharm El-Sheikh literally has hands to ‘pay’ for anything. Guess who pays for it? Guess who’s singing Happy Birthday, too?
It’s becoming an annual gala ritual that we admiringly watch on TV, but one sort of gets fed up with expensive birthday parties that one pays for, watches, but never gets to attend!
Sincerely,
Hoda Nassef
(Note: first they called it 'Economic Forum', and now, I discovered yesterday, it is called as it is: DAVOS!...which will take place starting 17th May 2008 - and the freebies - 'guests' - now exceed 1,500. Guess who really pays for this yearly extravaganza? US... The People! And...we aren't even invited! - H.N. 5th May 2008.)