Word: abu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration, he had met Sadat two years ago when Sadat visited Washington. Quickly re-establishing a rapport, Kennerly accompanied Sadat on his daily walks along the Suez Canal, visited with his family, and toured the country in his private helicopter. One day when Sadat and Kennerly were in Mit Abu el Kom, Sadat's home village, the President looked up to the sky and lamented the fact that so many Egyptian military planes now flew over the once tranquil town...
...embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has been somewhat suspicious of his Arab brother since the second Sinai accord of 1975, through which Egypt regained the Abu Rudeis oilfields...
...suggested that the Palestinians at Geneva might be represented by an academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod, 48, a native of Jaffa who teaches political science at Northwestern; and Walid Khalidi, a Lebanese national who is a visiting professor lecturing on Middle East affairs at Harvard. Sadat said that Yasser Arafat had agreed to his proposal. The professors have denied receiving any offers...
Even as a youth, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...
Sadat is a paradoxical mix of East and West. He likes English clothes and enjoys his presidential perquisites-including nine official residences, which he shares with his wife Jihan, 43. One of his homes is in Mit Abu el Kom. There he dons a peasant gallabiya to relax. He is as devout a Muslim as Israel's Begin is a Jew-his forehead bears a mark from touching it so often to the ground in prayer...