Saudi government misrepresentations on its failure to reform national textbooks was in full display last month in the BBC Panorama's expose of 40 Saudi part time schools in the UK, where it tried to deny that the schools were in any way connected to Riyadh.
The Pharaohs were stung by their failure to qualify for South Africa, and they will feel their absence all the more keenly after another superb display at the Nations Cup.
The powerful arguments on this score and the utter failure to date of the Clinton Administration to rebut them in any sort of rigorous fashion will be on display in a very timely symposium to be held on Wednesday on Capitol Hill.