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...Qaeda group in the capital Dhaka that night raises pressing concerns that Bangladesh may have become a dangerous new front in America's war on terror. Indeed, one Bangladeshi newspaper last month even quoted an unnamed foreign embassy in Dhaka as saying Osama bin Laden's No. 2, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been hiding out in the country for months after arriving in Chittagong. (Last week, in an audio message that authorities have tentatively authenticated, al-Zawahiri warned of further attacks against the U.S., vowing that it will not go "unpunished for its crimes.") According to a source inside...
Wahed, co-founder of Jewish Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, was born in Cairo. His family fled to Europe after the Egyptian government confiscated their property. After finishing his degree at Sorbonne, Wahed moved to San Francisco, where he rose in ranks to become chief economist at Wells Fargo Bank...
According to Wahed, Egyptian Jews’ minority status and deep-seated religious tensions with the larger Muslim community created “anxiety and uncertainty that caused stress and fear...
While speaking to a peace rally at San Francisco State University last May, Wahed said he faced taunts that “Hitler did not finish the job.” Wahed said that to his horror, “the police stood there as frozen as an Egyptian policeman” while protesters physically attacked Jewish students present...
...There’s always a way for us to survive, and we’ve always lived under other people,” Wahed said. He noted the important contributions Jews have made to Middle Eastern societies, citing his relatives who helped draft the Egyptian constitution in the 1920s and composed music for several legendary Egyptian singers...