Word: akhbar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best sort of chap to have around we've ever seen," said an Israeli negotiator. "The entire world will feel a sense of relief because of his efforts," proclaimed Cairo's newspaper Al Akhbar...
...Naguib's "Blessed Movement" in fine, military style. For two hours, crisp recruits tramped down Cairo's tapestried streets, while helicopters scattered Naguib posters from above. Next day 4,000 Liberation Rally guerrillas snapped past beneath their death's-head emblem, and later chanted Allah Akhbar, Allah Akhbar. Then paratroops, Egypt's first, jumped into Heliopolis race track. "We have the means," cried Naguib, "to throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army moved last year against King Farouk, 101 guns boomed...
Recently Cairo's crusading newspaper Akhbar el Yom printed a transcript of tapped phone talks that showed how she operated. The time of the talks: a few days after the Naguib coup. Zeezee, then in Switzerland, called Serag el Din in Cairo and ordered him to maneuver a chosen candidate into the Regency Council which Naguib was setting up. "Hader" (At your service), said Serag el Din. Then she called her husband, repeated her instructions. "At your order," replied Nahas meekly. As an afterthought, she told him to send her some more Swiss francs because she had already spent...
...MOSTAFA AMIN PUBLISHERS OF AKHBAR...
...hundreds of Egyptian villages, such stories from Akhbar el Yom are read by one literate person to dozens of illiterates who gather around in regularly formed groups called "reading rings." The papers are understandable to even the simplest fellah because the Amins and their staff have developed a clear, simple Arabic style that is already being imitated all over the Middle East. They live up to their boast that "Akhbar el Yom helps you" by supplying free legal help to readers, and pay their staff the highest newspaper wages in the Middle East...