The Egyptian High Council for Culture E.H.C.C. will organize an inter- national forum to commemorate the bicentennial of Rafe' El- Tahtawi, the great Arab thinker and the avant- grade, who once aimed at illuminating Egypt.

To achieve so, the council has formed a scientific committee to coordinate the forum affairs. This committee consists of:
(1) The council chairman, as a head, and membership of
(2) Dr. Younan Labib Reza.
(3) Dr. Madiha Dos.
(4) Dr. Majeda Refa'a.
(5) Dr. Mahmoud Fahme Hejazi, the professor of linguistics in the faculty of letters, Cairo University and the Previous Chairman of Books House (Dar El-Kutub).
(6) Dr. Kamel Zuhair, the writer and the famous journalist.
"The forum will focus on Tahtawi's contributions socially, politically and culturally as well.
These contributions will be presented through
3- days siminar in which many issues concerning Tahtawi's role in modernizing Egypt are going to be discussed".

Dr.Imad Eldin Abu Ghazi, the general supervisor of the committees and sections within the council was quoted as saying. Furthermore, the council will organize another forum about the Arab origins of the architecture in occupied Jerusalem.

This forum will be organized in cooperation with U.N.E.S.C.O. and The International Aga khan Institute whose main concern is to retain the Islamic identity of Jerusalem and to stand for the whole means and attempts of Juadizing the holly city.

As it is expected, ten experts form the two organizations, Dr,Yehia El Zeny, Dr. Abd El Haleem Ibraheem as much as many other Egyptian architects especialized in Islamic Architecture will participale in this forum.