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Professor and writer ANDRE ACIMAN, author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir

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Published July 21, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Professor and writer ANDRE ACIMAN, author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir." (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The book follows ACIMAN's close-knit, flamboyant Jewish family through 50 years of residence in Alexandria. The family was forced to leave Egypt when ACIMAN was 14, during a long wave of Anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism. In –Out of Egypt,— ACIMAN explores the lives and relationships of his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, and finally his own emotions about leaving his idyllic childhood home. His new book of essays is called False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 2/13/95) 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12: