[kictanet] Fwd: [igf_members] Good news! Contact with Tarek Kamel!

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Dear Listers - those who know Tarek Kamel, lately ICT Minister in Egypt,
may be interested in his contacts as below:

----- Original message -----
From: "George Sadowsky" <george.sadowsky at gmail.com>
To: igf_members at intgovforum.org
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:44:50 -0400
Subject: [igf_members] Good news!  Contact with Tarek Kamel!

All,

Thanks to Nashwa Abedel-Baki, I made contact with Tarek yesterday, 
and we had a very good telephone call.  Here are the highlights:

- He is in Paris and has been for some time.  He's being treated at 
the American Hospital for a malignancy of the stomach and intestine. 
(We did not go into detail.)  According to Tarek, his doctor gives 
him a very good prognosis for beating the disease.

- He is living at an apartment hotel in Paris, connected to the 
Egyptian embassy.

- His wife is with him in Paris, and his children are with his wife's 
parents in Egypt.

- He is interested in resuming a professional career, most probably 
in the international sphere, and he is beginning to put out feelers 
and to re-establish his professional network.  Some of us, or course, 
are a part of that network.  I told him that he has many friends 
internationally, here in this group as well as elsewhere, and that he 
could count on whatever help we could give him.

- Depending upon his medical condition, he talked about possibly 
visiting the United States (Washington, New York, maybe elsewhere) at 
the end of summer or early fall.

- He now has a new e-mail address, independent of the Egyptian
government:

	"Tarek Kamel" <tmkamel at gmail.com>

I encourage you to write to him.

- He has a mobile phone number: +33 6 26 48 78 35.  When I talked 
with him, he seemed somewhat tired, but his spirits were good, and he 
enjoyed the contact.  My sense is that he has some preference for 
e-mail contact, but that's my sense only and I could be wrong, and it 
clearly depends upon the nature of the conversation.  When he is in 
the hospital for treatment he probably doesn't have access to his 
phone very much; in the U.S. the use of mobile phones is restricted 
when around any significant medical instrumentation.

I hope that as a group, we have sufficient imagination, knowledge, 
contacts, and perseverance to help him to secure a really good 
position in which he can be effective, one that he richly deserves.

Regards,

George


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