Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series, produced by an Israeli television director and an Egyptian journalist, has aired weekly since February 5, appearing on 253 stations of the Public Broadcasting System throughout the United States...
...received from Jerusalem a concrete proposal of concessions that he could put to Egypt's Sadat. At the same time, he had not heard from Cairo any plan that suitably compensates the Israelis for withdrawing troops beyond the Sinai passes. Israel would like Sadat to formalize remarks the Egyptian President made in Paris two weeks ago, when he told newsmen that neither Egypt nor Syria would attack Israel. Said Premier Rabin in a speech last week: "As we say in the army, let him put it on an order blank and we have a breakthrough, a chance at agreement...
...Westerners ever fathomed the appeal of Umm Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as "the Nightingale of the Nile." She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas. But her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music...
...sides of the Yom Kippur War. Their remembrances of their loved ones, of ten spoken through tears, render the desolation of personal loss, and make one ashamed of glib generalizations spouted from a safe distance west of Suez. "I understand their feeling of loss," an Israeli father says of Egyptians who also lost sons in 1973. "It is more than the loss of life, it is the loss of hope, of plans." "Give him my sympathy," says a similarly bereaved Egyptian. "Tell him to be brave, that this is something we all hate, this type of violence be tween nations...
These halting voices are very moving; and Arabs and Israelis is a kind of candle sputtering bravely in the dark ness. It was made by Boston's WGBH, which used two field producers, an Egyptian newsman and an Israeli tele vision journalist. They could not visit each other's homelands, but they worked together closely, if often argumentatively, in neutral Switzerland to shape each program. The series is now being offered all over the Middle East. Though no nation has accepted it yet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt have expressed interest in it. One cannot help believing that...