Al-Ahram Weekly 24 Feb. - 1 March 2000 Issue No. 470
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

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Pope John Paul II As Pope John Paul II alights in Egypt, I can't help thinking of the Holy Family's sojourn here, two millennia ago. The Pope's face is almost transparent: he is frail, true, but he seems to glow with a spiritual force bestowed by a lifetime of prayer and asceticism. By George Bahgory

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