And this…

A real estate mogul with ties to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s son was sentenced to death Thursday for ordering the killing of a Lebanese pop star who had been his lover.

Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a member of the ruling National Democratic Party, was accused of paying a former Egyptian State Security officer $2 million to kill Suzanne Tamim in Dubai. The green-eyed diva, who was 30 at the time of her death last July, rose to stardom in the late 1990s drawing huge audiences with her sultry dancing and cascading chestnut hair.

…this is real? This is not something that happened in a novel by Salman Rushdie? Unbelievable.
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Suzanne Tamim and the ground that was once beneath her feet.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

3 replies on “Sentenced to Death”

  1. I read Slog on Bloglines and when I first saw this post I was all like: “What, sentenced to death by Charles Mudede? Who?”

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