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...news gaily. She had just finished work on her latest movie. She said goodbye to steaming Cairo, stepped into her limousine, headed north for a cool vacation on the Mediterranean. While she was laughing over a joke her maid was telling her, the car skidded, plunged into a deep Nile canal, carried Ismahan to death...
...spacious, broiling, tented square behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed...
...island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage of his life and the mystery of Egypt, while a boat hustles him off to jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment is like his first descent into the pit when his brothers stole his coat of many colors...
...Sachme. The fortress of Zawi-Re was a group of gloomy buildings on an island in the Mendesian arm of the Nile. When Joseph first saw the prison he divined that he would be there three years. He was right. Joseph was 27. Joseph's jailer, the warden of Zawi-Re, was Mai-Sachme, a soldier and physician, a short, dark, calm man of 40.* Mai-Sachme made Joseph an overseer. Into the isolated life of genial Jailer Mai-Sachme, who was like an intelligent modern officer serving in a frontier post, Joseph brought a breath of the great...
Some other Calvert students: a trailer-housed family of professional rollerskaters; a child on a Montana Indian reservation; a Vermont spastic; an Oregon child with a speech defect; a missionary's child on the Congo-Nile watershed; an Alaskan reindeer rancher's child; the governess-taught child of a Newport socialite...