Word: egyptian
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...commanded the Israeli air force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...CRUMB: Well, there's the Egyptian hieroglyphs...
...HUGHES: You didn't grow up looking at Egyptian hieroglyphs. What did you grow up looking...
Naguib Sawiris likes to think of himself as the Middle East's answer to Richard Branson. Last year the Egyptian entrepreneur started operating what is so far Iraq's only mobile-phone network. After just six months, his company, Orascom Telecom, already has more than half a million subscribers there, earning it $95 million before taxes and interest. Like Branson, Sawiris is a music lover - he calls himself a "party animal" - and has a taste for risky ventures. To date, six Orascom engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in Iraq and two of its sites have been shot...
...thought I was crazy. They still think I'm crazy because I'm in Iraq." ? Sawiris has a big appetite for fun as well as for risk. He and his glamorous wife, Ghada, are fixtures on Cairo's social scene, and in the 1990s he opened some of the Egyptian capital's coolest night spots, including Piano Piano, a trendy bar frequented by Egyptian movie stars. He says he cut down on such schmoozing after his father's friends worried that it could hurt the family's reputation. But Sawiris boasts: "I throw the best parties in town...