Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there are those scholars who not only bring their lives to Widener but, in fact, find it difficult to separate the two. Whether or not he "tries to become an American" next year, Fawzi Abdulrazak, a native of Iraq, will continue to work in the library. He must because Widener, where he edits the annual bibliography of Arabic historical writings, is what he calls "my country." Neither his classes at B.U. where he is working towards a masters in African history, nor his work as an Arabic specialist at the near Eastern Studies Center, serves as such faithful reminders...
...problem in America, Fawzi, as he prefers to be called, said at lunch in the Widener staff room last month, is that everyone tries to assimilate. "The minute you get to this country you are busy. The minute you get up you go to work then you go home, eat, watch the news, and go to sleep. There is no time for your own private studies. Life goes on. You see nothing." Still, Fawzi expressed no regrets about leaving Iraq "not really for political reasons," but in order to marry his American wite whom he met while they were both...
...Fawzi's fear that loss of tradition can result in a decline in the quality of life, reminiscent of Carl Asakawa's theme, is a favorite topic of another Widener scholar and one of Fawzi's friends who joined him for lunch that day. This retired rabbi and teacher, who asked that his name be withheld, has camped in a Widener stall since 1958 investigating the relationship between customs and daily life for the Jews of the late Middle Ages. His scholarly interests, the rabbi said, lie in examining customs as a basis for case study and in putting customs...
...refused to come home as a protest against the imprisonment of his brother by Nasser on charges of handing over state secrets to the CIA. Mustafa Amin was recently freed on Sadat's orders, together with a number of political prisoners. Among them was former War Minister Mohammed Fawzi, jailed in 1971 for allegedly attempting to overthrow Sadat...
Obviously the restlessness would not be satisfied by anything so illusory as a Cabinet shift. A few days before his speech, Sadat had pushed aside such eminent old guardsmen as Premier Mahmoud Fawzi, 71, who took the honorific post of vice president, and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, 55, who was named a foreign affairs adviser. The incoming Cabinet is composed of bright young technocrats with few ties back to Nasser and little political strength of their own. "Some are pro-this and some are pro-that," said an Israeli scrutinizing the list of new appointees. "The only thing that makes...