Volume 44, Number 11 · June 26, 1997
At Pharaoh's Court
By Amos Elon
Egypt's Road to Jerusalem: A Diplomat's Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East
by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Random House, 366 pp., $27.50
October 25, 1977, was a routine day in the life of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a fifty-five-year-old professor at Cairo University. He had spent the morning at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science. Then he went to the offices of Al Ahram, the semi-official newspaper and printing plant, to read the proofs of Al siyasah al-dawliyah, a quarterly on international affairs of which he was the editor. Later, he went to the airport to meet his wife, who was returning from a trip to Italy. As he entered the terminal, a breathless journalist from Al Ahram ran up to him. 'The Presidency of the republic has been looking for you everywhere. Where have you been? A thousand congratulations, Doctor, on the ministry!'
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