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...name among Arabs. So far, because of that magic, he has been largely a front in the Arab recruiting drive. The top command in the Arab war on Zionism has passed from Fawzi Bey to others. Above Fawzi Bey in the military hierarchy are two Iraqis: slight, hawk-nosed Taha Pasha Hashimi, commander in chief, and swarthy, glowering Safwat Pasha, overall field commander...
...challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke...
Britain), had allowed many an Italian troublemaker to slip from Iraq into Syria, El-Gailani was finally ousted by the Iraqi Parliament. When his Cabinet fell, Rome newspapers freely predicted trouble for the British in Iraq. Into the Premiership went Lieut. General Taha El-Hashimi, in as Foreign Minister was Britain's great & good friend General Seyid Nuri Es-Said...
Cairo, Egypt, has its fundamentalists. Dr. Taha Hussein., blind poet, went on trial there last week, charged with traducing in poetry the infallibility of the Koran. There are statements in the latter "which must not be accepted as historically accurate," he ventured to say. The Moslem University of El-Azhar, outraged at the charge, supports the prosecution. One lawyer defending the poet has been ostracized by his family...