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...image of Nasser still burned bright in the eyes of the Egyptian masses. If ever a fellah needed a friend, it was now, and the masses believed that only "Jamal"-Nasser-could lead them to repel the enemy. Cairo police reported that in the few hours from the time that Nasser "resigned" and then changed his mind, a record number of suicides took place. When he heard of the resignation, a soldier guarding a Cairo bridge howled like a wounded animal, fired his machine gun into the Nile until it was empty...
...opportunity to cool off the Arabs and lay the foundation for a durable peace. Both Washington and Moscow are in disrepute among the Arabs. As Israeli columns closed on Suez, Radio Cairo repeatedly shrilled that the Arabs were fighting "America first, America second and America third"-and many a fellah believed it. Washington is thus looking for some way of regaining a measure of influence in the petroliferous Arab world without sacrificing Israel's interests...
...poor fellah's daughter who started out posing as a boy-because proper Arab girls did not then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators...
...visit was pointedly overdue. The last ranking Russian to visit Cairo was Khrushchev himself, shortly before his ouster. Nikita had bounced around like a regular fellah, shaking hands and cracking jokes, and returned to Moscow to report to his colleagues that he had made a new aid commitment to Nasser without consulting them. It was one of the items that filled the dossier on rule by personal whim and caprice with which they denounced and demoted him. The new leadership refused to honor Nikita's check to Nasser...
...French orientalist cynically concludes that "Islam, as a faith and a law, can no longer exist in modern civilization." Yet the continuing lure of the hajj for all Moslems, from fellah to philosopher, makes it clear that the spirit of Mohammed's faith is not so easily stilled. Far more likely than slow extinction is that Islam will gradually undergo the same kind of transition that Christianity went through, as the concept of Christendom fell before secularization. In time, Islam may lose its overtones of an ideology governing all of life-as Christianity did in the Middle Ages...