Word: arabization
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...more than three centuries, Zanzibar was the jumping-off place for adventurers and explorers and a sanctuary for slavers, who carried their black cargo from the mainland beyond the range of avenging tribes. Swept by the monsoons, dhows from the Arabian peninsula brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than...
...there. Albright had made him head of the American School by then, but neither marriage nor administrative duties kept him from his project. He brought his bride to Jerusalem, parked her there, and in the summer of 1932 he set out for the East on camelback. He took one Arab companion and a Hebrew Bible...
Desert Etiquette. Those were wild years in Palestine, as the Jews and Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...
...potsherds again, squint into the setting sun for the shadows of ancient trails, feel the Bible come alive in his hand as he walked over Biblical lands. But settled parts of Israel were not his style; he did not like routine digging. And he could no longer explore in Arab territory. Jordan officials still denounce him as a spy who mapped their country to help Israeli invaders...
...with the enthusiastic help of the young Israeli government, Glueck began a mile-by-mile survey of the Negev. He could no longer move about unarmed; the local Bedouins were no menace, but armed Arab infiltrators were constantly crossing Israel's borders rigged for murder and sabotage. Glueck was forced to travel with a patrol of 15 to 20 Israeli soldiers armed with rifles, machine guns and hand grenades, and equipped with radios to call for help when needed...