Word: gaily
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ahmed el-Gaili '98 has a certain experienced, fluid smoothness when presenting himself, from his perfectly articulated speech to his perfectly shaved head--"by choice and divine choice," he says ruefully...
...there's definitely less than a thousand Sudanese studying in America right now," says el-Gaili, a special concentrator in development studies. He regretfully notes that when he tries to discuss the possibility of a Western education for members of his extended family living in the Middle East, the response is usually reserved...
Stuck between two cultures, el-Gaili presents the trappings of both home and adopted home with ease. Perennially clad in oxford shirts and khakis, he manages to simultaneously exude American preppiness and interpret his current home at a polite distance. Meanwhile, his Currier House single is full of Islamic and Sudanese artifacts from home and family. He pauses briefly to point at cane with an emblem of an eagle, the Sudanese national symbol...
...That was given by the Sudanese government to my grandfather, who was ambassador to the U.S. in the 1960s. My grandfather then gave it to me when I was preparing to come to America," el-Gaili says...
Ahmed T. el-Gaili '98 is co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students...