Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organizing student groups in support of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser after the Suez crisis and the Israeli invasion of the Sinai. Expelled for starting a student strike, he finished secondary school with a tutor. He was devout, austere, puritanical and, from years of listening to Radio Cairo, a true believer in Arab nationalism. After graduating from Libya's military academy, he spent several months at Britain's Army Signal School; he would stride through the streets of London in flowing robes and headgear?at that time an act of prideful defiance for an Arab...
...world's exaggerators, none surpasses the Arabs, whose language is a symphony of poetical excess. A Cairo gas station attendant greets his co-workers in the morning: "May your day be scented with jasmine." Sometimes the exaggerations that are inherent in Arabic can be dangerous. Saudi Arabia's late King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing...
...explosions began. A mixed group of some 300 U.S. and Egyptian army officers and accompanying gold-braided foreign military attachés lounged under black and red cloth tents in the chilly winter air near Wâdi el Natrûn, an oasis about 78 miles northwest of Cairo. Turbaned waiters, wearing flowing, blue-gray robes, or gallabiyas, served coffee, tea and box lunches...
...between Egypt and Israel over Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. Just two weeks ago, both sides spoke hopefully of a "breakthrough," but that optimism has all but vanished. "There are dramatic differences just in the concept of the self-governing authority," said a Western diplomat in Cairo about the talks. After 30 months, the two sides have agreed only on how to conduct elections for members of a proposed autonomy council...
Said he: "Our greatest challenge is simply whether we are to be or not be." His paraphrase of Hamlet could not be more accurate. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Peter Warg and Robert C. Wurmstedt/ Cairo...