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landed, she was occupied by thoughts
of the hectic workweek that lay ahead
of her — phone calls that needed to be
made, meetings that had to be
arranged, projects that were on the
verge of completion. But when she pre-
sented her passport at customs control,
the authorities seized the document and
hauled her into custody. Against the
backdrop of the Azzam Azzam spy crisis\
and increasing tensions between Arab
countries and Israel, the Egyptian
authorities kept Ganani locked up with-
out food or drink or explanation.
Throughout the ordeal, Ganani
remained calm, never fearing that she
might wind up in a cell next to Azzam.
Although she did not know why
they were holding her, Ganani, who
says she still trusts the Egyptians, was
more disappointed that they did not see
her as a friend, than she was afraid that
they would harm her.
Eventually, the guard in charge of
watching her slipped her a telephone.
She managed to call her son, as well as
longtime friend Ehud Barak, the Labor
Party chief, who happened to be in
Egypt.
Barak successfully intervened, but
Ganani, scared about the lack of job
prospects in Israel, did not want to
leave.
"I kept saying to him, Thud, what
am I going to do in Israel?' And then he
told me that if I decided to stay, I
would be doing so at my own risk,"
says Ganani, adding that she would
gladly return to Egypt and to her busi-,
ness, which has collapsed in her
absence. "I'm not afraid to go back.
They never accused me of spying or
gave any reason why I shouldn't be
allowed back into the country. I guess I
was just a pawn in a political game."
People familiar with her situation
agree. Tawhied Maggdy, a longtime
friend of Ganani's and a reporter at the
anti-Israel Rose el-Youssef newspaper ii i ;
Cairo, says that Ganani was caught in a
political trap. According to Maggdy,
Ganani never paid income tax and did
not have the right license to work in
Egypt. However, had the relationship
between Israel and Egypt not deteriorat-
ed, Egypt would have continued to turn
a blind eye as they had since she began
operating in Cairo.
Maggdy has been central in helping
Ganani fight her former employee, who
has successfully managed to forge bank
documents and siphon money from her
accounts. Ganani's 23-year-old son,
Amos, with the approval of the
Egyptian Embassy, spent a week in
Cairo to recoup his mother's assets.