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With her 20-lb. (9 kg) camera braced in the window of a tiny airplane, Mary Meader captured images of the Nazca Lines of Peru, the white summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the massive pyramids of Egypt. Her aerial photographs were some of the first taken of parts of Africa and South America...
...these years later, it's not clear how keeping athletes out of a track meet in Australia was supposed to affect postcolonial politics in Egypt. But by the 1970s and 1980s, boycotts were as much a part of the Olympics as spandex is today. The U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics. The Soviets boycotted the Olympics in Los Angeles. African nations boycotted the Montreal Games because New Zealand refused to boycott South African rugby. And rugby's not even an Olympic sport...
Meanwhile, Shakir has received a citation in Arabic and traveled to the Middle East every summer, recruiting Palestinian students to Harvard, working for the prime minister’s office in Dubai, and researching in Egypt for her senior thesis. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Aljawhary, whose name has appeared on blogs as far away as Turkey and Egypt, said that, despite all the attention, she’ll continue talking...
...Islamic Jihad, one of the participants, along with Hamas, in talks with Egypt aimed at brokering a cease-fire with Israel, wasted no time in trying to avenge the death of their Bethlehem commander, Mohammed Shahade, and his three companions. The group blamed Israel for ending the lull in Gaza fighting, and fired 25 rockets and seven mortar rounds into southern Israel...