“It’s puzzling why the Arab world doesn’t jump at the opportunity to put this person on a pedestal; to show that there was this very moral role that some Arabs… played,” he says.
at the close of the book, Anna’s daughter reaches out with a simple message contained in a letter she asks Steinke to deliver to Helmy’s descendants in Cairo: “All I really want is for you to know that there is a family at the other end of the world that feels gratitude and love for Dr. Helmy. We will never cease to be amazed by what he did, and we hope that his heroism will be an inspiration to others.”
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