Word: arabization
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...supported largely by Pennsylvania's Lessing J. Rosenwald, philanthropist, art collector and onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It has helped establish religious schools (now numbering about a dozen in the U.S.), donates relief funds for some of the 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by the Arab-Israeli war ($3,000 last year). Arabs consider the council an ally, distribute Rabbi Berger's anti-Zionist pronouncements...
...country of many tribes and little sense of nationalism, old Ibn Saud tried to unify his nation in the traditional Arab way: by "marrying" the daughter of a chieftain for a night. Thus the 1,000 princes are a cross section of tribes; and politics in Saudi Arabia, where no man has a vote, is largely palace politics...
...respected Foreign Office official, fathered two children, was assigned to the British mission in West Berlin. There he lived a spy in a city of spies, until 1959, when he returned to London. Then he was posted to the Foreign Office's Middle East Centre for Arab Studies near Beirut. Last month he was recalled to London and arrested...
Mended Fences. Hussein's loneliness was perhaps exaggerated, since modern Arab monarchs have given up few of their forebears' fabled prerogatives; but he will need all the sympathy he can get for his proposed second marriage (the first, to Queen Dina, ended in divorce in 1957 after she had borne him a daughter). Hussein has lately been mending his fences with Nasser to secure his shaky throne, and a British Queen in Amman is hardly to Cairo's liking. Moreover, two-thirds of Jordan's population are Palestinian refugees from British partition days. Hussein...
...take some of the edge off the unorthodox marriage, Toni last month embraced the Moslem faith, has begun studying Arabic. Hussein also gave her an Arab name, Muna al Hussein-the Wish of Hussein. Radio Cairo and Radio Baghdad have thus far studiously avoided reporting the news of the engagement, but Cairo's Al Akhbar was less polite. "The engagement will lead to an acute crisis in Jordan, and a loss of popularity for Hussein in the Arab world. His engagement to a British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find...