Word: arabization
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...early hours of the morning visiting bakeries "to taste the people's bread." He engages in talks with the goatskin-clad poor who live in reed huts on the mud flats of Baghdad's Tigris river. He loses no opportunity to expound on the mystic ideals of "Arab brotherhood," and has even re-established politely formal relations with the U.A.R., whose rulers, not long ago, stood accused in Iraqi public opinion of having engineered the attempt to kill...
Puffed Candle. That did not keep Kassem from making new efforts to establish himself as a counterweight to the U.A.R.'s Nasser within the Arab League. Last week, at Kassem's invitation, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba rejoined the councils of the Arab League; he walked out in a huff two years ago on the straightforward ground that Nasser had tried to have him assassinated...
...survive, only to be captured on an Arabian shore. Just as we expect to see Bogart face the firing squad, we find him sitting on a couch with the Arab leader, who asks, "Tell me more about Rita Hayworth...
...Fate does not play jokes," wrote President Nasser back in 1955. "We are in a group of circles which should be the theater of our activity-an Arab circle, the circle of the continent of Africa on which fate has placed us," and "a third circle, the circle of our Moslem brethren." Now that Nasser has played out his Arab role for all it was worth, he is turning to exploit Cairo's considerable resources in the other two circles...
...African states take their place in the world's councils, Nasser hopes to get their Moslem population looking to Cairo for guidance and help. With this in mind, the United Arab Republic's religion ministry will this year open a broadcasting station called the Voice of Islam-to do for religious affairs what the famed Voice of the Arabs now does for Cairo's political propaganda. Nasser also plans to appoint a religious attaché to every U.A.R. embassy or legation in Africa...