S.F. STATE Professor Of Arabic Barred From Returning To U.S. From Canada

"It was just a shock for me,'' he said by phone on Monday. "It is very Kafkaesque. They just say, 'We will contact you.' I am Egyptian, and Egypt is a very hot country right now that has produced terrorists. They disregarded my Ph.D., my scholarship. My marriage, my kids were blindly disregarded, and I was told I could not come back." Janelle Hironimus, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said she could not comment on individual cases. "The administrative process can take quite some time, so it is not something that we have control over," she said. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/12/BAGSPL3S0S1.DTL

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