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Anathema on Foreigners. Tampering with history, Novelist Schiemer brings his officers' revolt to a bad end, and with it Dirk's romance. The bloody mob riots that result in the burning of Shepheard's Hotel lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find...
...with a "severe reprimand," Wintle was packed off to a staff job in the Middle East. But soon he was turning up at the bar in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, sipping a favorite gin concoction called "Suffering Bathwater," sporting an impressive beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave...
...attracted by your vivid Feb. 4 description of the riots in Ismailia and Cairo. Referring to the destruction of the historic Shepheard's Hotel, you mention eminent men who have visited this hostel. I can readily understand that "Kitchener stopped in after the Battle of Omdurman," since that battle occurred in 1898. You state, however, that "Explorer Stanley dropped in after finding Dr. Livingstone." Since that memorable event in the jungles of Africa occurred in 1871, and, according to your own statement, Shepheard's Hotel was not built until 1891, a score of years must have intervened . . . THEODORE...
...original Shepheard's was established in 1841, 30 years before Stanley found Dr. Livingstone. It is the modern structure (burnt to the ground last month) that was rebuilt...
Founded in the heyday of British imperial expansion by a British innkeeper from Calthorpe in Norfolk, Shepheard's was a sprawling, 350-room structure built in 1891, a curious mixture of Moorish and Western in design, in the heart of Cairo's European district. Newsmen and businessmen, actors, archdukes, sultans, admirals, subalterns and field marshals thronged its corridors, its dining rooms, bar." Kitchener stopped in at Shepheard's after the Battle of Omdurman. Explorer Stanley dropped in after finding Dr. Livingstone. John Pierpont Morgan the Elder ate his last meal in Shepheard's. To readers...