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...work shall be under taken; even officials may go late to work; schools will close at 2 p.m. Those officials who do not observe Ramadan, in Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha's words, "shall be dealt with." The Premier made an example: he called off his important Pan-Arab talks (TIME...
...with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned shoes, a striped silk shirt and a shining tarbush...
Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and Iraq's Premier Nuri Pasha Es-Said are two of Britain's best friends in the Arab world. Nahas and Nuri poked cautiously last fortnight at the most vexing question in the Middle East: Pan-Arabism. The two pashas said they were looking for ways to "increase our cultural, economic and political cooperation." Their talks looked toward more talks with other Arab pacemakers, perhaps eventually an Arab congress...
Said Nuri Pasha after canvassing Arab leaders and rulers of Trans-Jordan, Syria, the Lebanon and Palestine: "I found general agreement among the majority [on] reunion of these countries into a united Syria as it existed before the last great...
...Arab idea was started in the '90s to extend the authority of the Ottoman Empire, revived by Lawrence of Arabia in World War I to win the Arabs for the Allies, squelched by the postwar mandate system...