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C’était le bon vieux temps … ou presque!
Lorsque je quittai Le Caire pour la dernière fois c’était tôt, un matin d’août 2010. Le cœur gros. Le chauffeur de l’ambassade surnommé « le petit Mohamed » m’avait étreint longuement puis m’avait laissé à mon périple. Je le connaissais depuis ses…
Canada’s Diplomatic Spouses and the Debt We Owe Them
Prior to departing for Egypt in 1976, I was given letters of introduction to a number of prominent personalities by R.A.D. Ford and his wife Thereza, friends of my parents. They were in the latter stages of a 16-year tenure in Moscow…
Lessons in War, Politics and Diplomacy?
In early 1967, there was a series of incidents along the border between Israel and Syria, which had escalated to a tank battle and clashes between their air forces, ultimately leading to the shooting-down of six Syrian MIGs in early April. With…
Cairo in the War — 1939-1945
Artemis Cooper, married to the writer Antony Beevor, is the grand-daughter of Duff and Diana Cooper. Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount of Norwich, was Minister of Information in Churchill’s cabinet from 1940-42 and British Ambassador to France from 1944 to 1947.…
Learning and Living in the Arab World
As my postings have both been in the Arab world (Cairo, 1976-1980, Amman 1984- 86), I am often asked what it is like to work in the Middle East. Two notions which I believe to be misconceptions, frequently come up: First, that…
The Six-Day War — A Cairo Memory
That Monday — June 5, 1967 — started like many others. I awoke to bird song: the bulbuls burbling in their inconclusive fashion in the casuarinas, and the coo-coo-coo-COO of the rock doves from the slender young mango tree close to my…
