Said to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus, it is graced with elegant Bermudian and colonial-style buildings. |
The 1950s saw the illegal Suez operation, during which a British warship bombarded Port Said and killed several Egyptian civilians. |
The European position bore all the earmarks of what Edward Said has called orientalism. |
We got there on a tourist coach from Port Said accompanied by armed police and soldiers in jeeps bristling with guns. |
Said James, the policewoman assigned to the case promised to call on them late Sunday afternoon. |
Said good looks combined with a somewhat jockish personality gained him a seat in the world of the popular at Ascension. |