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The show is particularly rich in pottery: lusterware, invented in Baghdad during the Abbassid dynasty (750-1258) in order to mimic the richer gold or silver dishes used by the court; elaborate dishes and bowls; and several examples of that ethereal and, for some reason, uncopiable turquoise-glazed black-figure...
One thing everyone "knows" about Islam is that it prohibited artists from painting the human figure. In fact, this was not wholly true. The Koran had nothing to say on the matter. Prophetic tradition banished figures from the walls of mosques, for fear of idolatry; but there was no rule...
High marks must go to U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Hermann Eilts. A slight, crewcut, Arabic-speaking diplomat, Eilts has developed a close working relationship with Egypt's President Sadat and his Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy. Though he has a profound dislike of airplanes-he once drove two days from...
Unexpected Help. Believed to be ultraleftist members of the Palestinian guerrilla movement, the kidnapers threatened that Morgan would be murdered unless the U.S. provided sizable food, clothing and construction aid for al Maslakh (Arabic for Slaughterhouse), a slum section of Beirut that was seriously damaged during the recent factional fighting...
Sign Language. Rabin and his government were unmistakably worried about the "reassessment" of U.S. Middle East policy that the Administration ostensibly has been carrying on since the shuttle talks collapsed. So far, the reassessment has resulted in the tabling by the White House of Israeli requests to purchase such sophisticated...