Word: yehia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest who made a point of always sitting at one of Afaf's tables said: "Would you like to come to Kuwait and work?" She did not get the proposal at first until he made it clear-"as a wife." Dr. Yehia Omar Khalid introduced himself, the pair took the next i train to Alexandria to meet Afaf's parents, and last week they were married...
...reconstructed by Newby, onetime English Lit. teacher at Cairo's Fouad I University, Egypt's revolution was merely preposterous. Its romantic absurdity is represented by one Lieut. Mahmoud Yehia, an idealistic young hero of the Palestine war who wants first of all to see his wicked king dethroned and punished, and second to marry an Englishwoman. Nothing will so much prove the glory of the new Egypt and heal the wounds of his former "wog" status as marriage to Elaine Brent, a visiting newshen of the London Sun. Yehia earnestly consults a young Englishman as to the mysterious...
Nothing of the sort happens, and Elaine finally leads her Egyptian officer back to London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...
Fashionable hostesses in Cairo and Alexandria always knew better than to invite Mohammed Farghaly Pasha and Aly Yehia Pasha to the same party. Bitter personal enemies, they were also business rivals and the biggest cotton exporters in Alexandria. But last February, Farghaly and Yehia evidently struck a business truce. They began buying Ashmouni (medium-staple) cotton futures (Egypt's biggest cotton crop) on the Alexandria exchange until they had invested more than $63 million in 140 million pounds of cotton...
That clinched the corner for Farghaly and Yehia, and the bourse closed for 24 hours last week to forestall a panic. (In New York, cotton traders said the corner would have little effect on U.S. markets.) At week's end, the pashas' paper profits were estimated at $28 million. But some Egyptian traders thought that Farghaly and Yehia might have overreached themselves. They might find it impossible to unload their enormous holdings without breaking the market and collapsing prices...