ABSTRACT
On 19 February, the Al-Akhbar daily ran an article I wrote on Saad Zaghlul’s extraordinary political skills, which enabled him to gain the full confidence of Egypt’s Copts and Muslims alike. That confidence reached its peak in 1919 when all Egyptians saw Zaghlul as the symbol of national salvation and the rallying point for national aspirations, when both Copts and Muslims forgot their bitter conflicts, for only eight years had elapsed since that sombre time. The article won praise from several readers, including two whose opinions I particularly cherish: the most eminent religious personality in the Muslim community and his Coptic counterpart.
