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I would like to call your attention to a lecture this coming Wednesday evening, 6 September 2017, in the Jordan Event Center located behind the Cruise Lady office at 9112 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, Utah. It will run from 7 PM to 9 PM.
The speaker will be Hany Tawfik, and his subject will be “The Wonders of Egypt.”
Permit me to say a word about him: I think that I’ve accompanied Cruise Lady tours to Egypt twice now, most recently this past May. Both times, Hany has been the Egyptian guide who accompanied us. (Egyptian law, like Israeli law, requires that a local licensed guide accompany tour groups above a certain minimum size.)
I’m told that he served for a time as the head of the national association of Egyptian tour guides. He was the guide who took President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton around when they made an official visit to the country. (Whatever you think of them politically — I voted for neither of them, myself — that’s a pretty strong vote of confidence in him.)
He is a tremendous guide, one of the most knowledgeable and entertaining that I’ve ever seen. And he’s scheduled to be with us again in May 2018, when I next accompany a tour to Egypt:
Due to limited seating in the Jordan Event Center — it can hold no more, I think, than about a hundred people — reservations are required. If you’re interested in attending, please contact Cruise Lady at 801-453-9444 or 888-707-4386 to register. There is a $5 charge per person.
I’m planning to be there. I may even say a word or two (though no more).
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In this context, you might be interested, sometime, in watching The Faith of an Observer: Conversations with Hugh Nibley, a film that was produced by the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) back in those wonderful days when it was beginning its rise as an important center for faithful Latter-day Saint scholarship:
Filmed to a considerable degree among the ruins of ancient Egypt, it’s available online for viewing at no charge — although the uploaded version is a bit fuzzy, visually speaking:
And a full transcript of the film is available for reading at
Finally, the film can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Observer-Conversations-Hugh-Nibley/dp/B00155JHTO
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Egypt is a place of virtually limitless interest and wonder. There hasn’t been a period of human history when Egypt wasn’t fascinating. It’s the place where the Arabian Nights took on their final form.
The pharaohs, Abraham, Moses, Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies, the Romans, Jesus, Mark the Evangelist, the Alexandrian Church Fathers (including Clement, Origen, and Athanasius), the Copts, the Arabs, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, Napoleon, Nasser, Sadat — they all spent time in Egypt. Shouldn’t you?
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