Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs like the radio? Last week the returns were available from a sampling of the Arab population in 15 towns of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine...
...Radio reaches only about 5% of the Arab public-some 250,000 people, mostly of the urban upper class...
...Most Arab radio sets can get short, medium and long wave-except in Damascus, whose nearby mountains keep the city in a "pocket...
...format is the same as the U.S. edition's but with only about 75% of its editorial content. At Pleasantville-to counsel on what would be of Arab interest and what might collide with Moslem taboos-is a group of five Arabic advisers, topped by Dr. Philip K. Hitti, acting chairman of Princeton University's department of Oriental languages...
...mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures which may eventually further that larger Arab union which is one of the aims of British policy in the Middle East...