Word: arabicize
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Little Black Schaefer is a famed Ger man agent and gunrunner who speaks Arabic as well as Britain's Colonel Lawrence. He prefers to be known as Sidi Fra Achmed Schaefer Arksis, has been a thorn in French sides since 1911.
"There is a curious tendency among many Maltese who have listened to Italianizing propaganda or suffered from a sort of snobbishness, to regard their ancient speech, which I believe to be a living relic of the language of Carthage, as a form of Arabic. Being good Catholics they easily got...
1928-Abolition of the Arabic alphabet and substitution of the Latin in a nation-wide drive so intensive that Dictator Kemal himself taught alphabet classes of high Turkish officials.
An indomitable modernizer is Turkey's swart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Having forbidden public reading of the Koran in Arabic, decreed substitution of the Latin alphabet for the old Arabic and given Turkey a new calendar, Dictator Kemal lately turned to history as taught in the schools. He caused...
Brave men and great fighters are the followers of Islam, but their religious sensibilities are tender as an aching tooth. Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a...