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...Saddam was part of a Baathist plot to assassinate General Abdul Karim Kassem, who had overthrown the monarchy of King Faisal II a year before. Saddam escaped Iraq with a gunshot wound in the leg and spent the next six years in exile in Cairo where he had contacts with the CIA. The American spy agency was backing the Baathists at the time...
...order dinner in Cairo...
Much of Wilder’s family was killed in the Holocaust—this had a profound influence upon his work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World War II within the verbal skirmishes between two military officers. “Here Wilder addresses the issue of the German camps of genocide, but it is done in a very comic way,” says Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures...
...York not only of Turkey but of the region," he says. "Being next to water is liberating and makes it liberal?gay and lesbian scene and all. It's a cultural soup where one minute you could feel like you are in Paris, the next Cairo, then Moscow...
...cover up, to be invisible, to preserve my “moral reputation.”All I wanted was to learn the language that would let me break through the barrier that separated me from my grandparents and extended family. But I quickly discovered that the streets of Cairo had other lessons to offer, whether or not I was willing to learn them.In the Egyptian capital, a wardrobe malfunction is not an accident—it’s a sin. My public crime—by which I mean three centimeters of exposed hip—was apparently...