The false information he gave under torture by Egyptian authorities was cited by the George W. Bush Administration in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

In 2003, the tomb of either King Narmer or King Hor-Aha ( two of the first Egyptian pharaohs ) was excavated and the skeletons of ten donkeys were found buried in a manner usually used with high ranking humans.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

On June 12, 2003, Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, also dismissed the claim, citing insufficient evidence.

In 2003 Boutros-Ghali was appointed as The Director of the Egyptian National Council of Human Rights, a position he still holds.

Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer, published in 1941 a story entitled " Awdat Sinuhi " translated by Raymond Stock in 2003 as " The Return of Sinuhe " in the collection of Mahfouz's short stories entitled Voices from the Other World.

It can be imposed to maintain public order ( such as those after the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 2005 civil unrest in France, the 2010 Chile earthquake and 2011 Egyptian revolution ), or suppress targeted groups.

Nadia Younes ( June 13, 1946-August 19, 2003 ) was an Egyptian national who spent her entire career, for over 33 years, in the United Nations ( UN ) and the World Health Organization, rising to high-level posts in a variety of areas.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian democracy activist imprisoned by the Egyptian government, was represented by Cotler and acquitted in 2003.

In 2003 the imprisoned leadership of the group renounced bloodshed, and a series of high-ranking members have since been released by Egyptian authorities, and the group has been allowed to resume semi-legal peaceful activities.

* Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I by Naguib Kanawati, 2003 Routledge ( UK ), pp. 171ff.

* Nadia Younes ( 1946 – 2003 ), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing

* Heaven by Live ( 2003 )-European 7 " single containing title track plus Forever May not be Long Enough ( Egyptian Dreams Remix ) as a B-side.

The production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian army.

In the " Imam Rapito affair " in Italy, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ( aka Abu Omar ), an Islamist cleric, was kidnapped in a joint CIA – SISMI operation in Milan on 17 February 2003, transferred to the Aviano Air Base, and then flown to Egypt, where he was held until 11 February 2007, when an Egyptian court ruled his imprisonment was " unfounded.

The DVD „ Elements of One “ by Eve-Marie Breglia shows Steve Coleman ( and his band ) in the years from 1996 to 2003 encountering: Von Freeman, Afro-Cuban musicians in Cuba, West-African and Afro-Cuban musicians in Senegal, rappers in the United States, Indian musicians in India, ancient Egyptian philosophy in Egypt, and a computer-music research centre in Paris.

Douglas Jehl of the " New York Times " reported that Charles A. Duelfer, chief weapons inspector in Iraq, reported that as recently as three months before the March 2003 invasion, " a branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service known as M14, the directorate for special operations, oversaw a highly secretive enterprise known as the Challenge Project, involving explosives ... trained Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemeni, Lebanese, Egyptian and Sudanese operatives in counterterrorism, explosives, marksmanship and foreign operations at its facilities at Salman Pak, near Baghdad.

Held 13 and 14 December 2003, at the Egyptian Journalists ' Union headquarters.

Ajax accepted a € 12 million bid for Mido from Marseille in July, and completed the move on a five-year contract on 12 July 2003, which made Mido the most expensive Egyptian player ever.

Despite that, the Egyptian Army operated 40 ZSU-57-2s as of 2003 and equipped them with radars.

A career diplomat, Stanton joined the US State Department in 1978, and has also served in Beijing, Islamabad, and Beirut and in senior positions in the State Department, most recently as Director of the Office of Egyptian and North African Affairs ( 2001 – 2003 ) and as Director of the Office of UN Political Affairs ( 1999 – 2001 ).

* Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, Egyptian cleric kidnapped in Milan by the CIA in 2003

Kodee's plight was detailed in letters published in the Daily Egyptian, a student newspaper for Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, beginning in 2003.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

In being awarded the 2003 Henry C. Turner Prize by the National Building Museum, then-museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: " His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards.

* Seattle Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence retrospective exhibition, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, February 6 – May 4, 2003.

* Drutt, Matthew ; Malevich, Kazimir, Kazimir Malevich: suprematism, Guggenheim Museum, 2003, ISBN 0-89207-265-2

* Article on Minimalist Art at the Dia Beacon Museum " Dia Beacon ", Tiziano Thomas Dossena, Bridge Apulia USA N. 9, 2003

* Seoul National University Museum of Art ( Seoul, 2003 – 2005 )

* Chinese National Museum of Peking, 2003

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ( 2001 ), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao ( 2002 ), Haunch of Venison, London ( 2003 ); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ( 2003 ); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand ; Millennium

* In December 2003, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles.

* 2003 Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, USA

In November 2003, the Natural History Museum in London held an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of its exposure.

* Kofron, Christopher P. ( 2003 ) " Case histories of attacks by the southern cassowary in Queensland " Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49 ( 1 ) 335-338

Recent retrospective surveys include " All About Art ," Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek ( 2003, traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 2005 ); and " Classic of the New ", Kunsthaus Bregenz ( 2005 ), " Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art " Museo Triennale, Milan ( 2010, traveled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne ).

For example, the Oscar statuette won by the Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions ( 2003 ) was until recently on display at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City.

In San Francisco, Jerry and Estelle Cimino operate their Beat Museum, which began in 2003 in Monterey, California and moved to San Francisco in 2006.

Two other museums are in Kanchanaburi: the Thailand-Burma Railway Museum, opened in March 2003, and the JEATH War Museum.

According to figures from 2003, some popular tourist sites include ( in visitors per year ): Eiffel Tower ( 6. 2 million ), Louvre Museum ( 5. 7 million ), Palace of Versailles ( 2. 8 million ), Musée d ' Orsay ( 2. 1 million ), Arc de Triomphe ( 1. 2 million ), Centre Pompidou ( 1. 2 million ), Mont-Saint-Michel ( 1 million ), Château de Chambord ( 711, 000 ), Sainte-Chapelle ( 683, 000 ), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg ( 549, 000 ), Puy de Dôme ( 500, 000 ), Musée Picasso ( 441, 000 ), Carcassonne ( 362, 000 ).

A major exhibition, " Turner's Britain ", with material ( including The Fighting Temeraire ) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004.