Opposition newspapers accused the Culture Minister, Mr Farouk Hosni, of involvement in a Masonic- Zionist conspiracy to lay claim to the pyramids.

Through the medium of the cinema, Mr Almasi said he would draw the world's public opinion "to this Zionist conspiracy".

Critics say this was a propaganda gift to Khartoum, which has often accused Darfur rebels of being part of a " Zionist conspiracy".

Tehran sees Syria's unrest as a " Zionist plot" against its close ally Damascus.

Another guest, a psychiatrist named Dr. Baher Sami Raphael Butti, said that Americans were part of a Zionist plot to occupy Iraq.