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...long time before New York City's Twin Towers were destroyed, many towers in my country were brought down by this same brand of perpetrators. They killed President Anwar Sadat, who initiated peace with Israel and liberalism in Egypt; they killed the Egyptian writer Farag Fouda, a defender of freedom and secularism; they stabbed our Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, when he was 82 years old, after discovering that 30 years earlier he had written a novel they considered the work of an infidel. They said they had not read the novel. Who told them it was sacrilegious? Someone living...
...bond between Christina V. Farag '01 and Damaris Hernandez '01 didn't form instantly, but once it did, it stuck fast. When they met in the ninth grade, Christina confesses, "I didn't like her. I thought, 'Who is this girl wearing a little hoochie shirt?'" They burst into a contagious giggle, and Damaris clarifies, "I have a round face, so she thought I was fat. I was wearing an outfit that a thin girl should wear...
...bond between Christina V. Farag `01 and Damaris Hernandez `01 didn't form instantly, but once it did, it stuck fast. When they met in the ninth grade, Christina confesses, "I didn't like her. I thought, `Who is this girl wearing a little hoochie shirt?'" They burst into a contagious giggle, and Damaris clarifies, "I have a round face, so she thought I was fat. I was wearing an outfit that a thin girl should wear...
...Egyptian officials suspect him of issuing fatwas, or religious decrees, in the 1990 Manhattan slaying of Jewish militant Rabbi Meir Kahane and the 1992 Brooklyn murder of an Egyptian named Mustafa Shalabi. Egyptian security officials claim they have evidence that his teachings inspired the murder of antifundamentalist writer Farag Foda, who was killed in Egypt last June...
According to the government, the plan that the conspirators eventually put into effect was the work of an electrical engineer named Abdel Sallam Sallah Farag. He suggested having First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli , a member of the Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) group, and three others shoot Sadat at the military-day parade. This plan was approved by Abboud Zomor in his hideout near the pyramids of Giza. It was also sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed...