Word: al-alami
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...shelter is a grey-thatched, Cambridge-educated Arab lawyer named Musa al-Alami. To his boys he is known only as "Ammi" (Uncle). His friends and enemies have frequently called him the "Don Quixote of the Arab world...
...problem of the bedraggled bands of boys left homeless by the Palestine war. In Jerusalem he saw hundreds of them, skulking about the bazaars, living in back alleys, begging or stealing a few piasters wherever they could. The orphanages and refugee camps around were already overflowing. Finally, Musa al-Alami hit on the idea of setting up a Boystown on his land...