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Returning to Damascus as a teacher, Aflak was soon indoctrinating students in his revolutionary ideals, drawing support from those who were overeducated, unemployed sons of the poor. In 1942, after leading a strike against French history texts being used in Syrian schools, he quit teaching and became a fulltime agitator...
The Guide of the Perplexed, written in Arabic and published in 1190, was an attempt to resolve the intellectual difficulties of Jews confronted with the work of Islamic sages, who had discovered Aristotle and grafted his ideas onto the prevailing Neoplatonism of the age. This synthesis seemed so reasonable that...
Prudent Politics. Aside from consulting four parents on their projected oil needs, Aramco's easygoing President Thomas C. Barger, 54, runs his own shop. Barger's career tells much about the company: a geologist who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1937, Barger spent four parched years prospecting the...
Six years ago, Aramco brought the eye of television to Saudi Arabia. To enthusiastic audiences, its Dhahran station broadcasts an average six hours daily of Arabic and English lessons, prayers from the Koran, and such U.S. shows as Gunsmoke dubbed in Arabic, though Aramco censors out religion, sex and sadism...
Nineteen of the high schoolers are enrolled in intensive (eight-unit) courses in Physics, Chemistry, elementary Greek, German, Spanish, and intermediate Russian, Arabic, Latin and French. Courses in Anthropology, Psychology, Mathematics, and Philosophy are also popular with the high school students.