Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day arrived last week, the Mahdi's son, 63-year-old Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman el Mahdi Pasha, now the darling of the British because he opposes union of the Sudan with Egypt, was ready to reopen his father's tomb at Omdurman. In ruins since Lord Kitchener's army shattered it with artillery in the reoccupation of the Sudan in 1898, the tomb was rebuilt this year with British permission...
Camel Meat for the Poor. Through the mud-brick city Sayed Abdul Rahman's spanking new black Chevrolet picked its way. As it entered the square before the tomb, butchers hacked off the heads of three camels and seven oxen. They threw hunks of bleeding meat to the city's poor. Unruffled, the Mahdi's son stepped daintily from his car, unfurled a light blue parasol, mounted the notables' platform...
...qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs are not only a well-organized team (coached by a lank Egyptian, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League), but a sort of alumni club: most of the Arabs at U.N. were educated at the American University of Beirut...
What should rouse less comment than a friendly visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting...
...British Way. A Britain which was retreating in the rest of the world still held fast to oil, pipelines and bases in the Hashimite kingdoms. The three who had their heads together in Amman were thoroughly used to working the British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...