Word: arabicize
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The Naguib government was not only out to face down its opponents, but also to prepare Egypt for a new agreement with the British over the future of the Suez Canal zone. Propaganda Chief Salah Salem told the crowd that the old Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede...
Under the Instep, No Count. Frequently, Fabian made flimsy clues pay big detection dividends. He once flushed a bogus count bent on marrying a U.S. heiress by noting that his shoes had not been polished under the instep, as they would have been had the "count" stayed in swank hotels...
At first, Alami took in only 18 boys, but his enrollment soon rose to 76. He clothed his charges in fresh khaki uniforms, built new adobe huts for them, hired a dozen teachers and master craftsmen to instruct them. Younger boys spent their mornings studying Arabic, English, history, geography and...
"It was a bad day for us when you came," says one of the villagers to Sophie. And Sophie, her eyes still fixed on an invisible star, packs her bags and shoves off with her children, this time to teach Arabic in Lebanon-once she learns Arabic.
The changes were amazing. Flaking away five layers of paint applied "by restorers since the 16th century, the professor found that St. Bartholomew's sleeve, before a dark, bilious green, was indeed a dark azure blue. That was just the beginning. On Judas' blue tunic, ancient Arabic lettering...