Word: arabian
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...part of a mysterious campaign to force him out - the occasional dead animal dangling from a fruit tree in his garden. And that stuff was easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back door by which all blame could be neatly sidestepped," writes Shah...
While Harvard has received prior gifts from other Saudi Arabian and Middle Eastern donors, there is no common formula for accepting or rejecting a gift. Rather, Harvard has chosen to evaluate the gifts, in accordance with the University’s extensive gift policy, on a case-by-case basis...
Funding for that improvement has arrived in the form of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud’s $20 million gift announced this past November. The Saudi Arabian prince—also the world’s fifth richest man—designated the donation specifically for Islamic Studies. However, despite the improvement the gift guaranteed, critics inside and outside the Harvard community—still reeling from the events of Sept. 11, 2001—said they were suspicious of his background and presumed intentions and questioned whether or not the University should accept the donation...
...demand a four-page story or a poem to accompany a leftover illustration - by lunchtime. McCaughrean calls it "the best job I ever had," and the discipline has stood her in good stead since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power...
...their unison, although as the piece progressed, they seemed to synchronize more successfully with one other. The latter half of the recital consisted entirely of popular scenes from the Nutcracker: “Snow,” “Spanish Hot Chocolate,” “Arabian Tea,” “Waltz of the Flowers,” “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy,” and “Coda”—which, strangely enough, was not performed to the traditional music entitled “Coda?...