Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo bureau, one member has planned an expedition up the Nile in his 15-ft. sloop, another is looking forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through...
Gifted Hungarian-born George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile...
When the Moslems make world news-(see FOREIGN NEWS)-it is usually more political than religious. But to most of the 221,000,000 Moslems between Dakar and Borneo, last week was no different from any other. From Cairo, a TIME correspondent described how a modern Moslem observes one of the world's most exacting religious rituals...
Loosely organized, Islam is the religion of a people separated by deserts and living in hard climates. Without a head prelate, a religious hierarchy or even an ordained priesthood, it has its center of activity at El Azhar University in Cairo (enrollment: 15,000). El Azhar, the largest Moslem university in the world, .draws students who walk there from as far as Addis Ababa; its graduates have vast prestige among Moslems in their own countries...
...Krim got a hero's welcome in Cairo, where Farouk also protects the white-bearded ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, and exiled Nationalist Leader Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. But there was consternation in Paris. The Quai d'Orsay called El-Krim's action "contrary to the traditions of honor that are those of Moroccans of his rank...