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...born on the West Bank, heads the Middle East studies department at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah and advises TIME on West Bank affairs. Naturally, much of the reporting came from the correspondents who head our two bureaus in the Arab world, Beirut-based William Stewart and Cairo's William Drozdiak...
Drozdiak's reporting took him to Jordan and the West Bank, where he met with top officials as well as a variety of Palestiniansdoctors, lawyers, teachers, bankers, farmers. While he assumed his Cairo post in January, he was not new to the Middle East: as one of TIME'S State Department correspondents in 1978 and 1979, he traveled to the region with U.S. envoys. He first visited the area in the early 1970s, after he went to Belgium to pursue graduate studies in political science and economics; on the side he managed to play pro basketball...
...bullet there was the poem," says Beseisso, 50. "In the days of the tribes, it was not enough to have a leader. They had to have a poet." Born in Gaza, he published his first collection of poems, The Battle, as a student at the American University in Cairo in 1952. Egyptian authorities pronounced it subversive, and copies were hidden in girls' lockers at the university to avoid detection by police. Beseisso himself spent seven years in various Arab jails, including five years in an Egyptian desert prison that he describes as "outside the map of God, where...
...North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain and Carlos, to Zurich, where the Egyptian President has secretly arranged to undergo surgery...
...Swiss banking establishmenta Soviet spy for 40 years. Surprise follows revelation, and it detracts nothing from the novel to note that Sadat survives the savage denouement at the Zurich clinic. In case of real medical emergency, the Egyptian President might be better advised to go to the Cairo hospital used by the Shah...