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...children in Africa today who are genitally mutilated (excised and infibulated). This was discussed at a World Health Organization Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979, with ten African and Middle Eastern countries participating, as the operations are also performed in the Middle East, in Egypt and on the Arab Peninsula. It should be added that Moslem girls in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia are also subjected to sexual operations of a less drastic kind than those performed by over 200 ethnic groups living in more than 26 countries in Africa...
From 1945 to 1950, Thesiger lived for long periods among the Bedu (Bedouins) of the Arabian Peninsula. "I was," he writes, "humbled by my illiterate companions, who possessed in so much greater measure generosity, courage, endurance, patience, good temper and light-hearted gallantry. Among no other people have I felt the same sense of personal inferiority." He also shared the soggy life of the Madan, Shia Muslims who inhabit the reedy swamps of southeastern Iraq. His two books about these experiences have become contemporary classics: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs...
Florida--haven for "old fogies," as they call each other behind closed elevator doors. You can just hear them over the muzak. "He's just an old fogie. His hands shake. He has liver spots. He is almost dead." Oh sunny sandy southern peninsula, home of The Fountainbleu, The Princess, The Bal Harbour Regency...
...Female circumcision" operations--the removal of most or all of the external genitalia of female children--occur throughout continental Africa, as well as in the southern Arabian peninsula, Hosken said...
...Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that a number of South Yemenis were involved in the Mecca siege. They also know that unstable, poverty-stricken North Yemen could link up with South Yemen to form a menacing new radical state on the Arabian peninsula...