Word: murads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most practical step Nasser took was to bring around the two leaders of the winter riot by, in effect, buying them off: Hassan Eid, the student organizer, became chairman of the na tional Students Union, and Helmy Murad, the leading faculty dissident, was appointed the government's new Minister of Education...
Frog-marched from a Mosque. The current, renewed trouble broke out at Mansoura, a delta provincial capital 75 miles northeast of Cairo, over a decree is sued by the new Education Minister, ex-Professor Murad. Its effect would be to force marginal students to repeat their grade and expel third-year students who fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries...
...national terms but must embrace the working classes all over the world. Some Arabs, for instance those in the oil sheikdom of Kuwait, continued Khrushchev angrily, are "lackeys of imperialism. Can you really unite with such people?" The air chilled, interpreters stammered, the Egyptian Ambassador to Moscow, Russian-speaking Murad Ghaleb, explained to Nasser that the translation had been faulty. "No, no," interrupted Nikita. "I meant what I said...
Square Triumph. Less than a week later, the army struck out again for Cairo, 150 miles away across the desert and up the Nile. When they met the forces of Murad Bey outside Cairo, the French were hungry and thirsty, many of them barefoot and weakened by dysentery. Nevertheless, the battle-hardened French veterans easily routed Murad Bey's Mameluke tribesmen. Formed in squares six ranks deep, the French infantry coolly cut down the wildly charging Mameluke cavalry, despite the heroics of individual Mameluke warriors whose scimitars sliced through the barrels of French rifles as if they were straws...
...Nasser, who in 1954 wrote from faraway Cairo, "The Dark Continent is now the scene of a strange and excited turbulence . . . We shall not stand idly by . . ." With his own words ringing in his ears, Nasser sent cultural missions to all the new black nations and appointed vigorous Ambassador Murad Ghaleb as Cairo's man on the board of the Congo's informal Diplomatic Society for the Preservation of Patrice Lumumba. But last week, soon after Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian charge d'affaires was thrown out on his ear for overzealous tinkering in local affairs...