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Yet their brows touched heaven
The blur of identity is fundamental to the Arab consciousness and the history of the Arab peoples has been a perennial struggle to resolve it: an alternation of confusion , self-awareness and doubt, mixed with something that transcends frontiers and … Continue reading
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a religious revolution?
Or is it a religilous revolution in Egyptian. No not Mohammed Morsi who sacks experienced military leadership thatat least kept the “cold” peace with Israel and replaced them dog loyal, bowl licking lackeys who would just assume tha its only … Continue reading
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thinking and taking the book out of the box
Mitt Romney and Israel still making waves or hay as he tries to throw Obama into the barn. Its all B.S. but gives the pundits what to wax on, or better yet to chew and spit out. Frankly, Sheldon Adelson … Continue reading
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arabian nights: plain and literal translations…
In 1865 Richard Burton was transferred to Santos in Brazil , where Isabel for the first time was able to make a home. They spent four years in Brazil, two in Damascus- which ended in trouble because of the intrigues … Continue reading
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richard burton : cities of the saints
Breaking Victorian taboos, one expedition at a time… …In a later book, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, Richard Burton described a village with 20 per cent more males than females and noted jovially” Is it not a waste … Continue reading
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rock of ages
The meteor.Mecca. A St. Judy’s Comet? In any event, the mysterious provence of this stone, and its sacredness and the relation of believing Moslems to Islam seems beyond the ken of Christians and Jews which inevitably involved diluting spiritual content … Continue reading
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