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...took his cameras among the Berbers of the High Atlas Mountains of northern Morocco. He joined the tribal migration of the Qashqai nomads across southern Iran. He wandered through the world of Islam as far as Malaya and Indonesia. His fascination with that realm enlivens The World of Allah (Houghton Mifflin; 280 pages; $35). From the film shot in his travels, Duncan has assembled a Pavlova of the highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan's versatile lens has memorably captured...
...buildings for blocks around. An instant later, a huge cloud of dust and smoke began to rise above a three-story structure whose ganglia lay exposed and bare. In the street outside, a Christian Phalangist member of the Lebanese parliament raised his hand to his mouth and cried "Ya Allah![My God!] That's the Kata...
...convoy moved through the crowded streets, the Palestinians were greeted by cheers and placards reading THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES and BEIRUT IS PROUD OF YOU. Caught up in the emotion, an old Arab woman cried, "They are all my sons. Allah is great...
Some of the rug merchants who control Hollywood are cautiously thanking Allah while waiting for the next plague of locusts. They point to numbers that have obtained for the past decade: each year, give or take 10%, the industry sells about 1 billion tickets in the U.S.; some 20% of the population buys 80% of those tickets; this core audience tends to be in the 12-to-24 age group; the young attend more movies in the months between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and so Hollywood serves up its big youth-oriented movies in that period. Says Frank Price...
...preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...