Word: anglo-egyptian
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Only 15% of the original beard is known to exist. Most of that is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but a 31 -in.-long fragment sits in a back room at the British Museum in London. The Egyptians want the missing link reinstated. The British have agreed to loan them the fragment, but only on condition that it be returned to London within ten years and that it not be reincorporated into the monument. Fearing that Anglo-Egyptian relations may prove as hard to restore as pharaonic constructions, the Egyptians have hit upon a Solomonic solution: while negotiations continue...
...which landed him in jail in 1942. Arrested again two years later in connection with the assassination of a pro-British Egyptian aristocrat, Sadat remained in prison until his trial and acquittal in 1948. Shortly after his release, he divorced his first wife and married Jehan Raouf, a beautiful Anglo-Egyptian girl who eventually gave him four children (he had three by his first marriage...
...prison in 1948 and cashiered out of the Egyptian army, Sadat took any job he could land: baggage porter, truck driver, used-tire dealer. By now he was divorced from his first wife and in 1949 he married Jihan Raouf, the beautiful, 15-year-old daughter of middle-class Anglo-Egyptian parents...
...fill of flashbulbs in the dead of night, visiting "priests" with cameras under their cassocks, spoiled beans, stomach pumps, sleeping pills, Jewish singers, German orphans, and old friends who mail him headlines that say FUN?BURTON. But he has come away with an interesting souvenir?this riggish, Anglo-Egyptian dish of his, whom he has installed in a rooftop suite in London's Dorchester. He is not at all sure what to do with...
They did just that last year when, tired of arguing with Egypt over a new pact to revise the old Anglo-Egyptian Nile treaty of 1929, Sudanese officials simply began diverting Nile water into their own irrigation system eleven crucial days before the date stipulated for such annual action. As a result, the Egyptian rice crop was damaged; Cairo protested hotly, and the Egyptian press cried that the Sudan was guilty of all kinds of crimes, including genocide...