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...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday - 24 years late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...
Nonetheless, moderate Islamic leaders have periodically enlisted Abraham as a bridge builder. In 1977 Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, announcing before the Israeli Knesset the brave initiative that would become the 1979 Camp David peace accords, invoked, "Abraham--peace be upon him--great-grandfather of the Arabs and the Jews." Sadat noted that Abraham had undertaken his great sacrifice "not outof weakness but through free will, prompted by an unshakable belief in the ideals that lend life a profound significance," clearly hoping that both sides would approach Arab-Israeli cohabitation in the same spirit. The accords went through, although this...
...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
...long time before New York City's Twin Towers were destroyed, many towers in my country were brought down by this same brand of perpetrators. They killed President Anwar Sadat, who initiated peace with Israel and liberalism in Egypt; they killed the Egyptian writer Farag Fouda, a defender of freedom and secularism; they stabbed our Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, when he was 82 years old, after discovering that 30 years earlier he had written a novel they considered the work of an infidel. They said they had not read the novel. Who told them it was sacrilegious? Someone living...