Word: mokattam
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...allowed into the complexes without permission. Residents of the fashionable Cairo suburb of Mo-kattam are not permitted to bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...
Abraham Lincoln broke into print, on Page One of Cairo's Al Mokattam, where he was quoted in the Arab fight against Jewish colonization of Palestine. United Press translation: "A country belongs to those who live in it." The Lincoln line: "This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit...
Interesting were last week's despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...
Expected were revelations that Mokattam had been taken in by a fiction tale published in a Palestine weekly...
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