Word: arabization
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Jerusalem, shrine of three faiths, has been divided and harassed by military occupation ever since the Arab-Jewish war in Palestine ended over a year ago. Between the Arab-held Old City and the Israeli-held New City, lies a narrow no man's land cluttered with shell-torn ruins. Only the foolhardy would cross the narrow strip without special permission from both sides...
...North Africa the happy trio is joined by Mrs. Lyle and her "pale and simple" son Eric who alternates between sleeping with his dominating mother and stealing from his fellow travelers. When Port dies from typhoid in a likely French Arab outpost, Kit wanders off into the desert where she is taken in by two Arab traveling salesmen whose actions prove that traveling salesman are the same the world over. Kit finally escapes from her harem when she finds that her Arab lover has to spend a few nights with some of his other wives. She then takes up with...
Maureen O'Hara may be an expert on décolletage, but she is no great shakes when it comes to acting in Arab movies. This became evident approximately half way through "Bagdad, in which Miss O'Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England in order to live with her father. When she is informed that Pa has been bumped off by a local band of rowdies known as the Black Robes, nothing will do but she must get an eye-for-an-eye and all that by eliminating the ringleader of the boys...
...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...
...Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists-mother & son. Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness. Bowles may have missed the center of the target with his central characters, but he has given them a supporting cast and an exciting setting that a good many more practiced novelists can honestly envy...