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Washington Monthly, May, 2005 by Charles Peters
Mohammed Harvey Goldstein certainly has to rank among the more intriguing names I've ever encountered. Did some monumental spiritual struggle lead to its adoption? Not exactly. According to The Wall Street Journal, Goldstein is a lobbyist in Indonesia who added Mohammed to honor his Muslim bride.
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It is also possible that the name eased Goldstein's access to the Indonesian officials he lobbies. That access is also helped by the fact that Goldstein is Gambia's consul to Indonesia. "The red, blue, and green flag of Gambia, a country of 1.4 million on the West Coast of Africa, hangs outside the entrance to Goldsteins Jakarta office," reports the Journal, which was unable to discover how he secured his diplomatic appointment. I have no excuse for running this item, except to say that I'm fascinated to learn that a man who began life as an American named Harvey Goldstein could end up an African diplomat in a Muslim country in Asia.
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