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It was either in 1962 or 1963. I was fresh out of graduate school in my first social work job, at Brightmoor Community Center in Detroit. In those times racial conflict was never far from mind. At Brightmoor, we received a post card inviting us to send someone to a meeting, clearly a meeting to prevent black people from moving into white neighborhoods. Of course, nothing that crude was said openly. I was assigned to go.
As I stood in Tahrir square, packed up again with people everywhere you turn, I looked around me. There was one man pushing his own wheelchair, an older woman being pushed in her wheelchair, a woman carrying a baby, women with and without hijab, kids (yes, women are very present), men, young and old, and last but not least, Christian men and women visibly wearing the cross.
Luxor, in southern Egypt, is well-known for being home of the most famous UNESCO world heritage sites in Egypt, including the Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamon's tomb, Valley of the Queens, the Temple of Hatshepsut and many others.
For years, I longed to visit the Nubian villages of Upper Egypt, to meet the people, eat local food, shop in their markets, hear traditional Nubian languages, and listen to their music.
A look inside the Muslim Brotherhood by Karin Laub is a wonderful article.
First you love, then you express your love, and finally, and sometimes much later, you find out the reasons for your love. I have experienced this with my love for Sinai.
President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad's "Benghazi moment" – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand how we Westerners can get it so wrong.
I came to know Yugoslavia three times in a span of 60 years; one in the 1950s, another in the 1990s and one last week.
I started my visit to Sarajevo by having lunch as a guest of the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina at a traditional Bosnian restaurant in the beautiful national park which is situated by the water springs at the foothills of the Mount Igman which feed the Bosna River at the outskirts of Sarajevo.
In his excellent 1954 book Introducing Yugoslavia, British author Lovett F. Edwards was also fond of Mostar, a small city set like a jewel in the mountainous landscape of southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. But who wouldn't.
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