Out of Place: A Memoir (50 page)

A family shot of Saids and Mansours, my father’s second cousins, photographed for the last time before everyone dispersed, Mansour House, circa 1946–47

Family portrait in Jerusalem, circa 1946–47. Left to right: Jean, Rosy, me at eleven, Joyce, and baby Grace

With my father on the beach at Alexandria, 1936

Aunt Melia in her customary hat, Cairo, late 1930s

Displaying early conducting skills on the terrace of the Cairo apartment on Aziz Osman Street

A report card from Keith Bullen, the bilious poet and principal of GPS

On the swing at
in al Na
s, a park and cafe near Dhour el Shweir, circa 1945–46. Left to right: Rosy, Jean (on swing), Ensaf (the nanny), and me

Outside St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem at cousin George Said’s wedding, April 14, 1947. Front row, left to right: Albert, me, and Robert; back row: Uncle Asaad (Al), cousin Yousif, and Wadie. Al was run over by a truck and died two weeks later.

The wedding of Alif Musa, my mother’s older brother, in Haifa, 1945. My maternal grandmother, Munira, wearing a turban, is directly behind her son, the groom.

With fellow cabin mates and counselor Jim Murray at Camp Maranacook, Maine, 1948. I’m on the left in the back row.

Dr. Farid Haddad and Ada at their wedding, c. 1949, Cairo. Haddad was killed in prison in 1959.

In a Kitchener House photo, 1950, at Victoria College, which I attended for tenth and eleventh grades. I’m sixth from the left in the second row; Keith Gatley, the housemaster, sits front row center.