[Oe List ...] 10/6/22 PHOTOS—B½ OF ARCHIVE PROJECT

[Timothy Wegner]

Now there is a picture I recognise, the picture from Bayad of men laying a
pipe in the desert! I might even have taken the picture, but I don't know
for sure. The man second from the bottom who is bending over is Abdul
Hamid, who was the closest thing to the leader of the Bayad project from
the village, and an amazing Spirit Man. The man above him was Shacker, one
of our more enigmatic village workers, but in his own way a very hard
worker. I recognise the next man up but I can't remember his name.

I went to Cairo with Abdul Hamid many times, sometimes to buy things, and
sometimes to raise money. I remember how scandalized our landlord in Cairo
was when we brought in a village man to the house we were renting. There
was a huge cultural distance between the middle class in Cairo and
villagers. This reminds me of the book *Villages* by Richard Critchfield.
One of his theses was that people from villages all around the world have
more in common with each other than they do with the educated middle class
in their own country. We didn't understand this at all, with the result
that our effort to have local folks like Abdul Hamid empowered to be
leaders faced an immovable obstacle in the local government.. We found that
our young Egyptian staff members faced a similar lack of respect.

That was really quite an amazing time in Bayad! And I am deeply grateful
for the time I had working with Adbul Hamid, one of the most remarkable
people I have known.

Tim Wegner

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:12 PM Nancy Trask via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> I wonder if the kitchen band in this pic is from one of the Oklahoma Town
> Meetings?  I dimly recall a kitchen band at one that I attended.  Anybody
> else recall where this Town Meeting was held?
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> “Methods & spirit are what we can bring”
> Nancy Trask
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