Word: el-gaili
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Originally, however, el-Gaili's father, a conservative Muslim, was very opposed to el-Gaili leaving the Middle East and tried to persuade him to take the traditional elite Sudanese education--university in Egypt and graduate school in England...
...headmaster at my Saudi school, who was an avid supporter of my [American] education, had to meet with my father for three hours before he gave his consent," el-Gaili recalls...
...retrospect, el-Gaili says he now understands his father's fears but has had no regrets about his decision to come to America...
...Middle East, el-Gaili was the occasional victim of strife among even his fellow Muslims. Three summers ago, el-Gaili was in Egypt writing for Let's Go travel guides when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak narrowly missed assassination. The event precipitated a terrifying ordeal for el-Gaili...
...There are many [anti-Mubarak] activists who receive training in Sudan, and here I was, a Sudanese visiting all of Egypt's sensitive areas," el-Gaili explains. "One day, I returned to my hotel, and I was apprehended by officers from Egypt's National Security Service who wanted to `ask me questions about my story.' I knew I was in trouble when I said I was from Harvard and the officer asked, `What's Harvard...