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Egypt: A Taxi Driver's Words of Wisdom

Monday, May 19th, 2008 @ 22:50 UTC

by Maya Norton

Countries:: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, U.S.A.
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Religion, Travel, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Israeli-American blogger Daniel Lubetsky, traveling in Egypt, interviews his taxi driver on leading figures in the Middle East. “I asked him to rank people or countries, thumbs up or thumbs down. Here were his rankings on 24 questions from Bush to Ahmadinejad, from Olmert to Nasrallah, from Bin Laden to Anwar Sadat,” Lubetsky reports.

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