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...growing up in Cairo, Joseph Abdel Wahed, an Egyptian Jew, would read graffiti in the streets that said, “The Jews are the dogs of the Arabs.” In high school, his best friend once said to him, “one day, all the Jews will have their necks cut.” Despite this anti-Semitism, he never imagined that his home would be anywhere but Egypt. Then, following Gamel Abdel Nasser’s rise to power, Wahed’s entire community was uprooted. A 1956 proclamation signed by the Egyptian Minister...
Last month, Abdel Wahed came to Harvard and told his story. He spoke of being an individual who considered himself a proud member of the Arab world and an Egyptian citizen, until his government and society decided that his religion invalidated his centuries-old tie to Egypt. Abdel Wahed’s life is powerful proof of the destructiveness of hate, and the impact of his story lies in the 900,000 times it was repeated. There are nearly one million people whose histories parallel Wahed’s, who experienced the same fear for their lives, and who underwent...
...Jesus lived. Some accept it on faith, others on the testimony of a brace of ancient chroniclers, both Christian and Roman. Yet there is something uniquely compelling about an attestation in stone. As Lemaire explained to TIME, "The written word is a bit airy. Listen, you can talk about Egyptian civilization, but the day you visit the pyramids, it speaks to you in a different way." Or as Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, says of the ossuary, "It is something tactile and visible reaching back to the single most important personage ever to walk the earth...
...rights record with respect to its native Jewish and Arab population may be better than that of many other countries in the region, no other country in the region is recognized as militarily occupying land and assigning rights differentially between those occupied and those who are not. While the Egyptian government’s purges of Islamists, for example, may be heinous in nature, that is a government acting against a community perceived as being part of the nation, and hence is different in quality from Israel’s actions in the Occupied Territories...
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday - 24 years late. The former U.S. President should have been a laureate in 1978, when he brokered the Camp David accords with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. But the Egyptian and Israeli leaders shared that year's award, while Carter was left out for the most mundane of reasons, says Geir Lundestad, secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. "Nobody nominated him in time...