Word: zamalek
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...shock of Israel's devastating defeat of Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. The loss catapulted him and many other activists of his generation into politics. He was the last person that friends and colleagues ever suspected would become a fundamentalist. He grew up in Cairo's affluent Zamalek quarter, the privileged son of Ihsan Abdul Koddus, a liberal writer with close ties to Egypt's revolutionary hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. His grandmother was Rose al Youssef, a Lebanese-born early feminist, a flamboyant actress and magazine publisher...
...Israelis jubilantly welcomed the establishment of ties. In fact, they have already found a future embassy site on the residential island of Zamalek in the Nile; Well aware that normalization is opposed by nearly the entire Arab world, the Egyptians seemed almost embarrassed by the proceedings. They have not yet begun to search for an embassy location in Tel Aviv. And, although the land border between the two countries is now officially open, the Egyptians intend to limit sharply the number of Israeli tourists allowed to drive to Cairo via Sinai...
...buildup. Of these, 4,000 are civilian technicians and their dependents: most of them serve as advisers on the huge Helwan steelworks just south of Cairo and the Aswan High Dam. which will be declared officially completed in ceremonies next month. The civilians live mainly in Cairo's Zamalek district in a community complete with its own school, social club and outdoor movie. Another 3,000 to 4,000 military advisers are assigned to the armed forces at every level of command from artillery crews at the Suez Canal to naval vessels in the Red Sea. "Today the Soviets...
...Lake. The final disaster came this month, when three drunken Simbas began brawling in Cairo's residential Zamalek district. Before the battle ended, two of them had been shot dead. The surviving Simba resisted arrest on the grounds that "I am a general." That was too much for even Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
...Nasser has turned his propaganda and subversion techniques on Africa, which he considers rightly his to lead, since, he says, Egypt "guards the northern gateway." But he has attracted to his doubtful banner chiefly the fanatics, crackpots and dissidents. In a ramshackle, flaking mansion in the Cairo suburb of Zamalek, a dozen African "political exiles" compile tracts denouncing the imperialists and pro-Western nationalists, broadcast regularly on "The Voice of Free Africa." The U.A.R. has set up "cultural centers" in Somalia, the Sudan and Ghana, and it has become fashionable for prosperous Egyptians to call themselves "Africans...
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