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Their personal investment in the program stems from their international biographies. Kalamchi’s father is from Baghdad and Elias’ parents are Egyptian. One of the programs affiliated with College Corps works in a village Elias has visited many times in Egypt. Elias’ first-hand experience impressed upon him the need for education in the developing world. Though they both have traveled extensively and attribute their backgrounds as a motivating factor, ironically neither Elias nor Kalamchi have been able to travel or work for any of these groups since starting College Corps...
...Just because there isn’t a Palestinian state doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t hope for it and shouldn’t have symbols that convey that hope,” says Hebah Ismail ’06, an Egyptian-American and a Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator in Quincy House...
...Palestinians battle with tanks and bombs, their supporters at Harvard are waging their fight by luring hot-button lecturers to campus. Last fall English department members, who had asked Irish poet Tom Paulin to receive an award at Harvard, rescinded the invitation amidst uproar over an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, in which Paulin said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank “should be shot dead.” Although the department later reinstated the offer, Paulin has yet to speak here...
While delivering a nationally televised speech in parliament last week, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke out in a sweat, coughed, staggered and slumped over as his security detail rushed forward to help him. Senior Egyptian sources confirmed to TIME that Mubarak's collapse, as the government maintains, came during a bout...
...task of negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Although Suleiman keeps a low profile, he has the distinct advantage of having earned the President's gratitude: in 1995 he insisted that Mubarak ride in an armored car while in Addis Ababa--where his motorcade was attacked by Egyptian terrorists...