CAIRO: US television talk show star Oprah Winfrey is to host a live show from Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of a revolution that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, a report said Friday. Egypt's new tourism minister Munir Fakhri Abdelnur was quoted by the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper as saying Winfrey had accepted an invitation “without hesitation.” “The plan is for her to broadcast a live show from Tahrir Square on a Friday in March, but the date has not been finalized,” the mass-circulation paper said. It was part of a campaign to revive tourism in Egypt after the huge uprising that forced Mubarak to resign on Feb. 11. There was no immediate confirmation from Winfrey, who in January launched her OWN cable network, aired in 145 countries around the world. Her reported visit to Cairo would be altogether different, focusing on the central Cairo square where pro-democracy activists gathered for more than two weeks in an uprising that sent shockwaves around the world. – Agence France
