Word: amir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency of Uncle Amir Abdul Ilah...
...great migration into enemy grazing grounds. The entire tribe of 35,000 with 350,000 camels, moved north into Syria. A movement so vast had international complications. French scouting planes flew overhead; raiding automobiles harried the tribe on the march. In a desperate move, Faris and Carl Raswan, representing Amir Fuaz, drove into the enemy grounds of the Fid'an to ask permission for the Ruala to graze there. Received suspiciously, threatened with death, they threw themselves on the hospitality of the Fid'an, who were thus compelled to let them go uninjured. To their astonishment...
...learn their history and the secrets of their breeding, found his task greatly simplified when the 8-year-old son of his host accidentally hit him between the eyes with a stone from his slingshot. Worried because he had drawn the blood of his father's guest, little Amir Fuaz childishly made Carl Raswan his blood-brother in a desert ceremony which pledged man and boy to a life-long tie. Amir Fuaz grew up, became leader of the Ruala, respected his pledge even when, years later, he discovered his European blood-brother in the ranks of enemy raiders...
...Arabia after the War he was given as guide and traveling companion Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand why Bedouins...
Carl Raswan rode on to other parts of Arabia, was captured by raiding enemies of Amir Fuaz and rescued by Amir himself, went on a great falcon hunt with the prince. Two years later he saw Tuema again, learned that Faris' brief marriage had ended happily by the standards of Bedouin romance, since Tuema had borne...