The story of the US’ only unresolved commercial airline hijacking + A memoir of growing up Jewish in Egypt
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The story of the US’ only unresolved commercial airline hijacking: On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man smartly dressed in a suit, tie, and black sunglasses bought a one-way ticket to Seattle under the name Dan Cooper. After boarding the plane, he claimed to have explosives in his briefcase and managed to hijack the flight (without harming any of the passengers or the crew) after demanding USD 200k. The hijacker parachuted off the aircraft with the briefcase carrying the money, disappearing without a trace — 50 years later, the FBI is no closer to finding out his real identity or fate. Netflix documentary D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! Dives into the (still unsolved) case, exploring top suspects and theories that have been put forth.
The case has amassed plenty of attention over the years, with books on the topic published, podcasts dedicated to solving the case, and characters and situations inspired by Cooper appearing in films and shows.
⚽ Still no football today, folks.
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Noha Fekry takes the Jazz Bar stage tonight at 9:30pm at Kempinski Nile Hotel.
Show off your karaoke chops (or make everyone’s ears bleed) at Room New Cairo’s Karaoke Night tonight and tomorrow at 8pm.
The Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts – Makan is hosting the all-women group Mazaher at 8pm. Mazaher are the the last remaining Zar practitioners in Egypt, drawing inspiration from the Egyptian, African, and Sudanese styles of Zar music.
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Growing up in Egypt as an Italian-American Jew: Out of Egypt is a 1994 memoir written by Italian-American writer André Aciman, who is best known for his 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name, which was adapted into an Oscar nominated film in 2017. Aciman grew up in Alexandria in an affluent Jewish family. His childhood memories of growing up in the coastal city and time spent with his family and the wider Jewish community paint a picture of the once-thriving cosmopolitan port that was home to a large expatriate population. He details his family’s move from Italy to Turkey then to Egypt in 1905, long before he was born. His memoir recounts how various eccentric family members made and lost their fortunes, their contempt for the Arabic language (preferring to speak French, English, or Italian), and how they hid their Jewish identities amid the rising anti-Semitism that eventually led them to flee to Paris in the early 1960s.