Middle East opens eyes to unknown
CAIRO
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CAIRO, EGYPT — My international relations professor is a smart man. He is head of Cairo University’s Faculty of Political Science and a member of Egypt’s senate. He’s spoken at lots of conferences with very prestigious-sounding titles. He is well-steeped in almost every aspect of Middle Eastern politics. He wears very nice suits.
Throughout my travels, I have had a constant companion. He’s recorded all my experiences. He’s traveled with me from Ankara to Cappadocia and Istanbul to Cairo. He’s kept me in contact with friends, shown me American television when life abroad became too demanding and even helped me do my homework.
CAIRO — In his memoir “The Big Rewind,” film and television critic Nathan Rabin said that during his stay in a mental institution, he amused himself with a peculiar pastime:
CAIRO — While studying in Ankara last summer, I lived with a Turkish family named the Özkurts. They welcomed me with incredible kindness. Before the weekend’s conclusion (I arrived on a Saturday afternoon) I had been taken to meet the family matriarch, introduced to the extended Özkurt clan, and my host mother had begun calling me can?m (“dear”). She said she considered me her newest son. I was flattered, if a bit skeptical and disbelieving.
CAIRO — Once upon a time, a man named Mustafa Kemal decided to make his people westernized. After winning a war of independence, driving out foreign invaders and abolishing a corrupt sultanate and outdated Caliphate, he went further. Using his position as head of the army, as well as his personal popularity stemming from his military victories, he began transforming every aspect of his country’s society.
These thoughts haven’t raced through my head since grade school.
ISTANBUL — “How did you get to Istanbul?”
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Erin McGrath wants her passport back.
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