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A bribe is a bribe by any name-and the more euphemistic the name for it, the better. Baksheesh, currently in wide use in the Middle East, is a Persian word that is also found in Turkish and Arabic. It actually means a tip or gratuity given by a boss...
Our first driver, Mustapha, punches the accelerator of his Peugeot 504 station wagon and breaks into a smile. Peace has brought him tangible dividends. Each morning, for four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour...
The twisted wreckage of rusty train cars signals the approach to the Sinai capital of El Arish. After twelve years of Israeli occupation, the town reverted to Egypt in May 1979. Many of the local people speak both Hebrew and Arabic and merchants hawk Israeli goods. At the frontier, travelers...
The U.S. must attract more and better young officers into its diplomatic corps and intelligence services. That means raising both pay scales and mo rale; it also means increasing the size and quality of the talent pool from which those services draw. There is a desperate need for a new...
It was the usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was...