Associated Press writers Maamoun Youssef and Maggie Michael in Cairo and Thomas Adamson in Paris contributed to this report.
This year's festival also included one event in Ramallah in the West Bank and one in Cairo, Egypt, on May 11.
Some of the most powerful and hopeful art of the Egyptian revolution came in the form of gigantic trompe l'oeil paintings on the concrete barriers that blocked protesters' access in and around Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Cairo.
The sentences have prompted anger in both cities, with some protesters in Port Said believing they are too harsh and others in Cairo convinced they do not go far enough.
The Chinese and Japanese embassies in Cairo, and the French foreign ministry, also confirmed that their nationals were among those killed.
Associated Press writers Barbara Surk in Beirut and Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed.
The crossings opened a day after Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met in Cairo and Egypt expressed concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Security Council officials said they were to meet with various leaders this week, including the French foreign minister in Paris on Friday and Egyptian officials in Cairo on Sunday.
Among the individuals to pull out was Mustapha Gamel Al Sayyid, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo.
CNN: Row over Egypt's new constitution reflects wider tensions
Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in.
Mr Ibrahim gave the names of three men and said they were planning attacks in both Cairo and Alexandria.
He also undertook the restoration of numerous mosques in and around Cairo.
"We have real doubts about such conference, " said Dia Rashwan, an analyst at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, Egypt.
"It is paramount, essential, urgent that the Egyptian economy get stronger, that it gets back on its feet, " Mr Kerry told Egyptian and US businessmen in Cairo on Saturday.
Obviously, one of our big focuses right now is on authorized departure -- on getting non-essential embassy personnel, their families and others who wish to leave the country on any number of planes that are in Cairo and boarding.
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- World leaders and Palestinian representatives gathered in Cairo Friday morning for Yasser Arafat's military funeral service.
Secular in this conservative and religious society isn't quite secular, even in Cairo's trendy salons and nightclubs.
Cairo (CNN) -- Egyptians, angry at reports of inadequate security at a soccer match where 79 people died Wednesday in a riot, clashed with police, leaving two dead in the city of Suez and at least 900 injured in Cairo, officials said Friday.
Some of Guez's family resettled in London, Oman and Cairo, but others remained, finding themselves in an "extremely complicated and difficult" situation, he says.
His upbringing, however, was also that of the scion of a Middle Eastern autocracy: Gamal and his older brother, Alaa, were raised in tightly guarded, luxurious residences in Heliopolis, a neighborhood favored by top officials and military officers, and were driven around Cairo in limousines.
In media interviews ahead of his trip to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and during his big speech in Cairo on Thursday, he claimed that the centerpiece of his Middle East policy is his willingness to tell people hard truths.
So we are, and the embassy was, well before anything started in Cairo, maintains a relationship with many of those groups and with many in civil society.
The company is under contract to evacuate approximately 200 people from Egypt, primarily in Cairo and Alexandria.
Mohamed failed to be a famous singer in Cairo and wants to find a new beginning in Australia.
CNN's Housam Ahmed and journalist Adam Makary in Cairo contributed to this report.
While behind bars, his party was split by infighting and its headquarters in central Cairo were set on fire.
Museum representatives are working with the British Embassy in Cairo and Britain's Ministry of Defence on a possible recovery operation.
The speech, however, failed to quell the antimilitary sentiment that has exploded in Cairo and other Egyptian cities in recent days.
Mr Rennie also thanked staff at hospitals in Cairo and Luxor, the British Embassy and travel company Thomas Cook for their help.
American Robert Becker chose to stay in Cairo and face state prosecutors.
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