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Show Ih Sharia Wadi el-Nil Maadi February 2, 1955 Dear Professor Cameron: I am truly grateful to you both for your kind letter of January 28 and for the trouble you have generously taken in bringing the matter of my delegation to Michigan for a year to a successful, issue. Though with some difficulty, as you may have felt during your sojourn in Cairo, I cannot but accept with pleasure the grand temptation and honor of being associated with Michigan and with you for 1955-56. I trust, indeed, that I shall be of some real service to your magnificent Fear East Program during that session. I have a~nnmber of,suggestions as to courses of study which I should like to consider with you on your return to Cairo. I understand that you will be here on February 8 or 9. As I have a meeting of the executive committee of the Muslim-Christian Convocation in which I represent Egypt among some twenty nations to be convened at Alexandria between the 9th and Dtth of February with an exceptionally heavy schedule, it will be helpful if you could let me know by return of mail how long you would be in Cairo. I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we should get together while you are with us, either before the 9th or after the l*fth. Meanwhile, I managed to see Mr. Downar of the Fulbright Foundation IB Cairo to discuss with him the possibility of providing my transportation. As this is going to be the first case where an Egyptian will be re-elected, he promised to explore the funds and his committee* He asked me to give him photographic copies of both your letters of July 20, 195^5 an^1 January 28, 1955• I can do that of course, though perhaps, if you have no objection, it might be even more effective if you wrote directly on behalf of Michigan and the Hear East Institute putting the facts of the nomination and the invitation and asking the Fulbright authorities to do what is right. From your letter of July 20, I understand that yoti have contacted Dr. Elizabeth Lam of Washington in'this connection. Yon might like to repeat this, now that the matter is in its final stages so that she would forward the application to Cairo in due course. Being a personal friend of ours, I do not wish this request to come irom me. I am sure that you will not hesitate to do the right thing, i mean to take my whole family with me this time, and any financial relief will be quite acceptable. My wife and 1 have given much thought to the whole affair, and you will be interested to know that we are agreed that we willingly go to Ann. Arbor, not only for Michigan, but also for the children's sake and our own. Again many thanks and best respects. CoArzdiiza lSl.y Aytoiuyars , |