Word: nasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dusk the streets are deserted. "Anyone who goes out at night may be shot on sight," says Abdel Nasser, 24. "We sit and think only of revenge." In a nearby hideout, Jamal and fellow activists gather to chain smoke, play cards and mythologize their suffering. When the claustrophobia becomes unbearable, they sneak up to the rooftop to stare at the stars and the sweeping spotlights from Israeli patrols. Says Bassem, 29, who has been on the run for a year: "I'm expecting one of two things: either prison or death in an ambush...
...shabab are back on the streets by 6 in the morning, reclaiming their territory and gathering information. The news leaves them visibly shaken: Israeli soldiers stormed Abdel Nasser's house at 1:30 a.m. and hauled him off for interrogation. Seventeen other Palestinians were also arrested. "There is no escape from this nightmare," says Jamal, recalling his own time behind bars. "One night I even dreamed the soldiers had come and taken me away to prison." He awoke to the sound of soldiers bursting through the door...
...their customary family celebrations. The new Latin patriarch Michel Sabbah, a pointed critic of Israel's policy toward Arab residents, will still lead the centuries-old procession across the square for midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity. But, all in all, says Roman Catholic Deputy Mayor Hanna Nasser, "it is a very sad Christmas...
...predominated. Bethlehem, for instance, a Christian stronghold from the very earliest days of the faith, now has a Muslim majority as a result of high Islamic birthrates and an influx from refugee camps. The growing influence of Israel's Orthodox Jewish political movements adds to anxieties. Says Bethlehem's Nasser: "Jewish and Arab fundamentalism are the same. They are like sisters, and we fear the sisters are going to clash, and we will be caught in the middle...
Mahfouz's untranslated trilogy Al-Thulathiyya (1957) is a 1,500-page family saga that spans 27 years and both World Wars and is read as a microcosm of Cairene society. He supported Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1952 coup d'etat but gradually grew disillusioned with the colonel's policies. "It is true that the revolution liberated the Egyptian people and pushed them into modern life," says Mahfouz, "but it led to many wars that tired us out." Mahfouz found himself at the center of controversy in 1979 when he publicly backed Anwar Sadat's peace treaty with Israel...