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Now a clearly more authentic version of Josephus' testimony has surfaced. Professor Shlomo Pines, a Jew and professor of philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has announced the discovery of a long-overlooked text of the Josephus passage in a 10th century Arabic work. Despite the relative lateness of...
A sort of documentary of Bumper's last three days before retirement, the book tends to be a bit ostentatious in such honesties, as if they established Bumper's credibility. In the end, Wambaugh sentimentalizes Bumper as a sort of repellently lovable supercop who, whenever he is not...
When the British withdrew from the gulf in December, the sheiks created the Union of Arab Emirates (see map), which is somewhat less of a nation than a collection of traditionally suspicious and unequal tribes. Linked only by language (Arabic) and faith (Islam), the six founding members differ vastly in...
Dressed in a tan safari suit with a military cut, he sat at a table in the well of the crowded courtroom. There was a long, ugly scar on the side of his face -mute testimony to his occupation. As TV floodlights played on his shaved head, his eyes glanced...
Gibb was the only European member of the Egyptian Academy of the Arabic Languages in Cairo, and was also a fellow of the British and Danish Academies.