Word: arabicize
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Pause. The Iraqis conferred in Arabic and then announced that the devices would be used in aerospace research.
Pause. More conferring in Arabic, and as the meeting wore on, the Iraqis kept changing the specs until they fitted those of a nuclear warhead detonation capacitor. But Supnick informed them that the U.S. Government would not license the capacitors for export if the true destination, Baghdad, were revealed. The...
Alongside freedom of worship, Muslim citizens of the Central Asian republics are becoming more assertive about culture. Many are demanding a return to the original Arabic script of their respective languages. The Cyrillic alphabet was forced on the Central Asian republics by Stalin in 1939 to cut Muslims off from...
The population pressures, coupled with the floundering Soviet economy, have added greatly to impoverishment, joblessness and stinging resentment of the better-educated European Soviet nationalities -- and particularly of the well- to-do elite. Last month in Dushanbe these resentments exploded in several days of looting, burning and pogroms against non...
But such a gradualist, spoon-fed approach to the number of Holocaust victims cannot enhance understanding of the human tragedy of the Holocaust. If the point is really to remember life, not numbers, why not remember all life? Eleven million will "click," just like six million, if it really stands...