Cairo-Park City

When we first arrived in America, we rented a small apartment in a three-family home and its main particularity was that the three households that lived there were all able to converse in French in addition to English. Our landlord who occupied the third floor hailed from the former Yugoslavia and had spent some time in France before moving on to the United States, while the first floor occupants were Liz and Nagui Khalifa who had met at the Sorbonne in Paris, had just married and were ready to settle in White Plains, New York. In the eighties, the Khalifa who had just started a family, moved to Cairo, Egypt. We traveled to the Middle-East to visit them with the children in 1989. In the meantime, Liz also had a brother who studied medicine at the University of Utah and decided to stay and work in Salt Lake City. He soon was joined by their dad, who like his son was an avid skier and an accomplished sportsman. In 1991, the whole Khalifa family came from Egypt to spend a month vacation in Park City. We then had less contact and met Liz again in Park City sometime in 1999 and 2002. This month, she returned to Park City as her younger son Timmy was attending a swim camp in town and we seized another rare chance to spend a few moments together… More than 7,000 miles apart, yet what a small world!