Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The child star has grown into a storyteller with a special appeal for children. She starts her new series with All Baba and the 40 Thieves. Nehemiah Persoff plays Ali...
Moving among the tables in the Ibis café in Cairo's new Nile Hilton Hotel, pretty Afaf Abou Ali, 22, daughter of a well-to-do Alexandria family and owner of a B.A. degree from Alexandria University, went about her waitress job with more spirit than the job usually gets elsewhere in the world. After all, jobs for long-sheltered Egyptian women have until lately been few and far between, and her $150 a month at the Hilton was three times what she could earn in government work. Besides, there were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest...
...bitterly opposed sects are the Shiites and Sunnis, each claiming the true faith and branding the others as heretics. The Shiites acknowledge as their leaders the direct descendants of Ali, Mohammed's son-in-law, consider these imams incorruptible, infallible and immortal; since the disappearance of the last known successor of the house of Ali in 878, the Shiites wait for the "Hidden Imam" to make his earthly return. The Sunnis, on the other hand, refuse to accept divine inspiration by inheritance, recognize first the caliph as the "commander of the community," then turn to the "consensus," made...
...imams heard Sociologist Ali Abdel Wahad tell them that suppression of women in the Arab world is a distortion of the Koran's teaching. They heard Mohamed Madani, dean of the Islamic Law Faculty, declare that "not a single phrase in the Koran is against science." To this tradition-bound university, such lectures are unprecedented. Al-Azhar, in many ways the spiritual center of the Mohammedan world, is in the midst of the most drastic renaissance in its long history...