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...first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. During a 1994 U.N. population conference in Cairo, CNN had aired footage of the backstreet female genital mutilation of a 10-year-old Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was asked to find the girl and do an update. But after a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in New York assumed she'd want to "tell her story...
...Brooklyn Museum Here are a wealth of items based on indigenous art from the Americas, as well as the art of Japan, China and Ancient Egypt. Prices go from $15 for a silver-effect Peruvian bird pin - modeled on a motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent...
...Some of the bounty of this intercontinental enterprise is on display at Venice and Islam: 828-1797 - an impressive exhibition being held at the onetime seat of Venetian political power, the Doge's Palace, until Nov. 25. Chronicling nearly a thousand years of exchanges with Egypt, the Levant (roughly present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Western Syria), the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond, the collection is as eclectic as the history it charts: ceramics colored with Armenian dyes, embroidered silks and enameled glass, carpets and flowing tapestries, maps and ancient texts, elegant portraits of aristocrats and ambassadors...
...respond to TIME's interview requests, but his officials gladly rattle off lists of figures to show Tunisia's progress under his regime. The numbers are striking: while Egypt and Algeria suffer from chronic shortages, Tunisia has a 15% surplus of housing, thanks to massive government construction programs. And about 80% of Tunisians own their homes - ahead of much of Europe. While African countries struggle to educate their children, school is compulsory - and free - in Tunisia up to age 16. About 34% of Tunisian high school graduates go to university, more than five times the rate when Ben Ali took...
...Texas Rangers today. Can we get them in?’” said Card, imitating the president’s manner of speech. “I said, ‘No, the schedule is jam-packed. You’ve got the president of Egypt, and the prime minister of this place, and six members of Congress,’” he recalled. “’I know you really want to do this, but you can’t do it today...