EAS March Function - A Great Fun

The Society's March function was a real treat for the attendees, with about an hour and a half fantastic tour on Houston's Ship Channel Boat, then with the fine dining at Los Cucos, followed by a fun-filled evening led by Mona Ghazi. About forty five, adults and children, attended the tour and a similar number the dinner.

Early afternoon, the boat tour was a nice opportunity for relaxing, enjoying the water and breeze and socializing with other EAS members and friends, on the waters of the ship channel. The dinner was quite fine, and the trivia/gift-stealing game that followed was real fun. The winners were

Ayman Eltaher

Sonia Nagi

Amir Salem

Nahid Mohamed

Tawfik Nasr

Irene Said

Hossam Salem

Mohamed Sabbahi

Ehab Shabaan

Maisa Kotb

EAS Board would like to thank everybody for the great turn out and for the positive feedback we received.

We hope to see you all in our next (April) function, which is going to be really special; planned and executed by the Egyptian American young adults of Houston, led by our young Board member Dina El-Deeb.

Hi everybody,

After the Ship Channel Tour on Sat., March 21^st, we will be gathering again for a dinner and social.

If you plan to attend the dinner, Please RSVP by sending email to aeltaher@sbcglobal.net and telling us the number of attendance in your party. This RSVP is separate from that of the Ship Channel Tour. People can attend either events (Tour or Dinner) or both, but you need to RSVP for each separately.

Location:	Los Cucos, on Westheimer, near the Galleria 5851 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX 77057 (713) 278-2802
Time:	5:00p.m
Menu:	Chips and Salsa. Mixed Fajita (Beef and Chicken) Buffet with all the Fixings Rice, Vegetarian Refried Beans and Tortillas Fountain Drinks or Iced Tea
Cost:	$ 20.00 for Members $ 25.00 for Non-members $ 8.00 for Children 12 & under (A Choice of Chicken Fingers or Fried Shrimp)

EAS March Function

Happy Mawlid ElNabawi

Muslim Egyptian Community in Houston,

We have received letters (below) from President Hosny Mubarak of Egypt and from H.E. ElHusseini Abdelwahab, Consul General of Egypt in Houston congratulating the Muslim Egyptian community in in Egypt and the world over for the coming blessed Mawlid ElNabawi, the birthday of Prophet Mohamed PBUH. Below also is the response letter sent on behalf of the community from Dr. Ibrahim Abou-Sayed to H.E. El Husseini Abdelwahab, thanking him for his kind letter.

EAS February Meeting

The EAS Board would like to thank all who came with the positive feedback on our last meeting. The meeting was a success by the sincere efforts and dedications of Board members and volunteers.

The meeting was attended by more than 70 members and friends of EAS, as well as about 10 children. The main item on the meeting agenda was the speech and discussion lead by

His Excellency Ambassador Elhusseini Abdelwahab

The talk by Ambassador Abdelwahab was indeed informative and hit a number of hot current topics, including impact of global economic recession on Egypt and the supporting role of Egypt in recent events in Gaza. In their special room, the children also had their share of fun with the clown, balloon animals and the pizza. The meeting was concluded with a lively "Name that Tune" game lead by the new stars of EAS

Dina El-Deeb & Mona Ghazi.

Winners of the "Name that Tune" were

Ghada Ahmed , Nabila Eid,
Abla Barakat , Samy Rezk,
Yusra Abou-Sayed , Nahed Strawes,
Nour Hyder , Rasha Heggazy,
Mohamed Elkady & Noha Elgohary

The EAS Board would like to thank all volunteers who participated in making this event the great success it was; in particular, we thank

Marwa Soliman , Mona Elkhelali & Dalia Diab

Who did a fantastic job sitting with the children and provided them with the wonderful time they had. A special thank goes also to

Adel El-Deeb

For his IT support during the "Name that Tune" session.

This meeting had the special flavor and fingerprint of the Egyptian American youth that Dina and Adel brought in. The EAS hope this would continue and progress to a more lively and dynamic EAS energized and lead by the new generations of Egyptian Americans in Houston.


Pictures are courtesy of Tarek Ghazi

A Conversation with His Excellency Sameh Shoukry

Egyptian-US Bilateral Relations and Shared Objectives has this event organized in Houston:

A Conversation with His Excellency Sameh Shoukry

Speaker(s): His Excellency Sameh Shoukry, Ambassador of Egypt to the United States

Date: 2/25/2009

Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Location: The Intercontinental Hotel- DiscoveryB, 2222 West Loop South, Houston, TX 77027

For more details: (http://www.bilateralchamber.org/_events/default.aspx?event_id=192)

Invitation to EAS February Meeting

Dear EAS Memebsr and friends,

Please click on the invitation below for details on our February meeting.