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Npr guest says statue of liberty originally arab { January 29 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7070098 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7070098 Analysis Perspective on U.S. Middle East Policy All Things Considered, January 29, 2007 · Robert Siegel talks with Michael B. Oren, author of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. The book is about the history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East. -------------------- EXCERPT: 3:00 Robert Siegel: By a Frenchman, Bartholdi who had sold the idea to the Egyptian government to grace the entrance of the suez canal. His original vision called for an arab women with a veil to hold this torch, and this would serve as a lighthouse at the entrance of the canal. But in 1869, the Egyptian government went bankrupt and Bartholdi was left without a customer for his statue. And in despair he traveled to the United States and he passed Bedlow's Island going in New York Harbor and he thought, that would be a good place to put my statue. He sold it to the Americans with some french backers but they insist on replacing the Arab women with a veil. And today you have an American women holding that torch.

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