Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat of war hung over the Middle East, even though all parties to the crisis protested that they did not want war. It took the skilled diplomacy of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold last week to get their protestations in writing. Result: a cease-fire along the bloody Israeli-Egyptian border and a promising stillness spreading across the Middle East...
...Saws. At the Mansion House the elite of London's financial and industrial world was waiting to meet them. As they took their seats in the vast gold-columned Egyptian hall, they were serenaded by the Honorable Artillery Company band. Bulganin replied to toasts in a long, rambling speech which made the assembled capitalists fidget. When he quoted "an old Russian saying that Moscow was not built in a day," the hall rocked with laughter, without Bulganin having any idea what the joke was about...
...Call of the Muezzin. The novel's hero, Dirk Celliers, is a free-lance South African journalist nosing around Cairo for stories to send his London editor. An Egyptian officer friend, Major Khaled, takes him to a cell meeting of the League of Free Officers, a conspiratorial group bent on overthrowing the monarchy. Dirk quickly learns that the revolt has been triggered by a teeth-gnashing shame over the defeat in Palestine ("The hand grenades from Italy which had blown up as soon as you pulled out the pin . . . Spanish field guns for which the wrong shells had been...
...news agency, Java-born South African Author Schiemer, now 23, was a fledgling reporter of the Cairo scene for a year beginning in March 1953. He met Nasser and Naguib, original front man of the coup, and made friends with members of the Arab League, the Moslem Brotherhood, Egyptian army officers and plain people of the poor native quarter where he lived. With its probing look at Egyptian attitudes, motivations and customs, the book is written more between the headlines than on top of them...
...four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief at Gaza. Moaned one 18-year-old: "My father owns a tobacco shop, and he begged me not to become a fedayee. Oh, how I wish I had listened...