Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
From his GHQ at Abbasiya Barracks early one morning this week, flying squads roared into Cairo, rounded up 62 sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely...
...Sudanese the right of self-determination. The Egyptians had 1) named King Farouk Sovereign of the Sudan and 2) let it be known that they considered the pro-Independence party in Sudan (the Umma) a collection of dogs and British lickspittles. For the Sudanese, Umma Leader Sayed Abdul Rahman el Mahdi,* the richest man in the Sudan, had threatened a holy war if the Egyptians tried to get back in. The impasse was complete...
They ended last week with the understanding that old Umma Party Chief Sayed Abdul Rahman would come himself to Cairo to resume the talks. All sides were still far from agreeing, but-as one Sudanese minister explained it-"Our viewpoints were as far apart as Cairo and Khartoum [1,100 miles]; the distance now is only that from Cairo to Aswan [460 miles]." Cairo and London agreed that the chances for a settlement were the best in months...
...nickname was borrowed from the real Young Turks, who in that year forced reforms on the Sultanate of Abdul Hamid...