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" The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo. "

Lawrence Wright

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" I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans. "

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" I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years. "

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