Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last year, Nasser appointed a new rector: Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, himself a product of al-Azhar and a top Koranic scholar, who has long preached the need for Islam's religious awakening. In weekly radio talks, he demanded reform, urged that Arab countries give women an education. "It is written that women used to argue with the Prophet," he explains. "God heard those arguments and approved them." Long an antiCommunist, Chaltout last month appealed to his vast radio audience "in the name of the religion of Allah, to give serious thought to the danger which threatens...
...Provides professors and graduate students for understaffed schools in other Arab countries. Some 300 al-Azhar scholars are teaching in Kuwait alone...
...made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next year. Thanks for your prayers and good wishes. God bless you all. See you again soon...
SUEZ CANAL LOAN to deepen and widen waterway may be granted soon to United Arab Republic by World Bank. It would provide most of $100 million needed to increase depth to 40 ft., thus allowing 55,000 d.w.-ton supertankers to go through canal...
Hazza Majali has been under attack by the United Arab Republic's press and radio ever since King Hussein asked him last Tuesday to form a new government replacing that of Samir Rifai...