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From June through September western winds dump great rains on Dakar and the adjacent Senegalese coast. Then the harmattan (from the French-Arabic for evil) starts to blow from off the scorching Sahara. By November Dakar's lush greenery begins to parch. The sky is so blue that it...
Among other fairies gremlins shouldn't be confused with: duppies (West Indian nuisances who throw rocks on your roof at night and whose eyes burn like fire); afreets (Arabic sprites who cause dust whirlwinds in front of bad camels and sometimes are called "dust-devils" for it); jinn (far...
At the American Consulate, Willkie conferred with both Lebanese and red-tarbooshed Moslems, made a point of having all remarks translated verbatim into Arabic. He emphasized his favorite saying, "Those who give the most get the most." The Arabs understood Willkie's advice, "Bet on the winning horse which...
The colonel called his Indians to attention and spoke to them in Urdu. Though Rommel speaks English, he does not know Urdu, which is a variation of India's Hindustani, a chop-suey language which includes Persian, Arabic and even some English words. While Rommel and his staff stood...
Ever since the Hill of Jesus began to turn up in war dispatches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egyptian hill came to have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about...