Word: arabicize
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If any contemporary ruler is as crafty and consistently surprising as Shakespeare's Henry V, it is surely King Hassan II of Morocco. Like Prince Hal, Hassan was once a high-spirited playboy who has managed to disarm his critics by adroitly consolidating his power. Since he inherited the...
But today the institution is reclaiming its position as one of the world's great libraries, thanks to a new lion in its president's office. Vartan Gregorian, 50, a pudgy, bearded historian who bears more than a passing resemblance to Patience and Fortitude, came to his post...
Culturally, too, the Sephardim often feel more at home in an Arabic environment. But the Middle Eastern Jews who arrived in Israel 36 years ago found that Jews from Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union had created a land in the image of their old European homes. Speaking the Judeo...
But this is to be expected at the Harvard summer school, a place of unpredictability, strangeness, extremes...well...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showed up one summer to study Arabic. It's almost the exact opposite of staid regular-year Harvard, which cruises along tradition-bound and stuffy. Summer School Director Marshall...
The financial wire's success has permitted Reuters to beef up its news operations. The editorial budget has grown 65% in the past two years. The agency nowadays provides complete and thoughtful coverage, especially from the Middle East, Africa and British and Commonwealth countries. The staff of 612 reporters...