Diary #40

1959

My father, Rashad, sitting second from the right, laughing on a school trip to Aswan on 1 February 1959.

It was 1959. And life was only getting better for my father, Mohamed Rashad el-Hamalawy, or simply Rashad, as everyone knew him. He scored the third highest grade in the republic in Thanaweya Amma, shook hands with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was g…