Word: arabicize
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Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477...
Einstein in Arabic. Franklin, fittingly named for Ben, set out in 1952 to be "the ambassador of American publishing"−nonprofit broker for countries hungry for U.S. books. It is headed by Datus C. Smith Jr., former director of the Princeton University Press, and governed by a board of directors...
Exports: Cotton, gum arabic. Per capita income: $95. U.S. aid (1961): $9,400,000. Africa's biggest country has made impressive economic gains, with foreign aid. Regime unlikely to step down before Seven Year Development Plan ends in 1969.
Mohamed Moustafa Badawi, lecturer on the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria, opened the program with a short but informative discussion of the major problems facing contemporary Arabic literature.
He began with a brief introduction concerning the history of Arabic literature, showing how more traditional subject matter like Arabic poetry has affected some contemporary authors. He said that traditional Arabic poetry placed an emphasis on language in its verse and on society in its content, and it was not...