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Article: When the Suez Canal was born, hoping to unite two civilizations.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2003
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Byline: Clive Davis, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
If, as Zachary Karabell observes in "Parting the Desert," the Suez Canal is no longer the power in the world that it once was, the opening phase of the war in Iraq briefly rescued it from the shadows. Circled on maps and prodded by the marker pens of many a retired general, the Canal was, for a moment at least, back at the center of things. As we read accounts of how the waterway would serve as an emergency shortcut for the military hardware that had been refused passage through Turkey, we were given a reminder of the Canal's reign as an emblem of Progress.
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