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I recently lost a dear brother to cancer, and another professional colleague three years ago. About five years ago, my sister underwent her first mastectomy due to breast cancer, and her second was done just last month.
As a boy growing up in Egypt, I would rather have faced a ferocious lion than a snake. I thought I'd have a fighting chance of survival with the lion and, if unlucky in the encounter, perhaps a quicker demise. With the snake, however, I believed my survival odds would be zero, and I would suffer a slow and painful death.
There was considerable irony and an uncomfortable tinge of hypocrisy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently paid tribute to the late diplomat-activist Nelson Mandela at the United Nations, calling on world leaders to "champion democracy, human rights and the rule of law around the world."
A woman writes a beseeching letter to her husband who is away traveling on business:
"You don't want me!" cried the child, dropping her worn-out suitcase. "You don't want me because I'm not a boy! I might have expected it! Nobody ever did want me. Oh, what shall I do? This is the most tragical thing that ever happened to me! I'm going to burst into tears."
Ever since I was a teenager growing up in Cairo, Egypt, I dreamed of visiting many countries of the world … maybe even all of them! Over the past five decades, I've averaged about one new one a year, but there are far more than 50, so I still have quite a number to cover.
When I was a teenager growing up in Shoubra, a middle-class suburb of Cairo, I would ask my mother every time I sat for an exam to pray that I'd do well. None of my six siblings did the same.
Many people examine their lives and faith when they reach old age, such as 75 which happens to be mine; I am no different.
I have long been interested in ancient Egyptian music, the songs, dancing and instrumentals one can still see beautifully recorded on 5,000-year-old paintings that adorn the walls of temples and tombs.
While touring Sinai last year, my Arabic-speaking guide pointed to a beautiful native tree and asked, "Doctor, do you know what this is?"
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