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The road to India, the Suez Canal, the oil fields of Mosul, the whole complex of political and strategic requirements that drew Britain into Palestine in 1918, began with the enterprise of the Elizabethan merchant adventurers.
hydra of revolution,
This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.
Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here.
You are my country, Desdemona ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.
I care about Bahrain.
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.
Today we are all Egyptians.
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.
Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
Bahrain is very dear to me.
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.
Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.
The sea refuses no river
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!
Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.
We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.
offered an overland excursion to view pyramids and sphinx,
Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy.
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
Tie my heart in Egyptian threads.
Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.
It is the Morocco of America, the New Orleans of the north.
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.
The Mediterranean was, before the northern European industrial revolution, one of the wealthiest regions in the world. Divisions between Muslim North Africa and Christian southern Europe were contained, if not always peacefully. The
I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;
Egypt's prestige abroad was so intact that the "King" of Tyre declared: "All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there" (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
The sea? What's that?
Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to consider.
Come to salvation!
The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.
PAPA: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.
NASSER: But that country has been sodomized by religion. It is beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere, it is a little heaven here.
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier
You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.
Cairo is one of the greatest storehouses of human achievement on earth, ranging from the pharaonic through the Christian and Islamic periods to the Belle Epoque.
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.
And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...
When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
Okay, well ... how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia , are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.
A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
Right now, you understand that you are going to have to leave your Egypt of financial debt. I pray that you enjoy your ride through the desert to the Promised Land of prosperity.
The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads.
The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.
The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners
It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
A desert blessing, an ocean curse.
Whether through the Balfour
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...
There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.
Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
The sea is my business.
The great maritime city of Asiatic Ionia, was of old the meeting-place of the East and the West. Here the Phoenician trader from the Baltic would meet the Hindu wandering to Intra, from Extra, Gangem; and the Hyperborean would step on shore side by side with the Nubian and the Aethiop.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
If you want to sail your pretty little rowboat down the Nile and take in the scenery, then I'm not going to be the one to stop you.
One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.