Word: algar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostages, or that Khomeini would tolerate their torture or death. Says Thomas Ricks, an Iranian expert at Georgetown University: "Nothing in Islam could justify the slaughter of the hostages, and it is unthinkable that the captors would do so, unless they were threatened by an outside attack." Professor Hamid Algar of the University of California at Berkeley notes that the Shari'a permits both the exchange of hostages and their unilateral release by captors. He also observes, however, that "one tradition is that hostages may be kept permanently...
Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar have compiled a bilingual Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry that transcends such simplistic, patronizing views of the East. The book is a collection of free verse written both in response to and outside the mainstream of modern Western literature, and the poems avoid the formal abstraction of neo-classical Arabic poetry while retaining its rich imagery. In general, they reflect the Western view that literature should reflect an artist's subjective response to the world about him rather than just a superficial description...