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This past Christmas Eve, Khashoggi entertained some 60 guests at his 5,000- acre spread on Spain's postcard Mediterranean coast. For the occasion, La Baraka (in Arabic, "the blessings of God") was transformed into a Moorish palace: gold chandeliers draped in white leaves and red streamers, the ceiling of...
In late July, two months after the McFarlane mission, Father Lawrence Jenco was released, and the arms trade was revived. In August another shipment of 500 TOWs and Hawks was sent from Texas to Tel Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect...
Today, Cooperson speaks five languages fluently, including French, Modern Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, and he has some knowledge of Spanish and German. An honors concentrator in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cooperson has taken a literature class in Greek, a philosophy class in Hebrew, and is currently studying classical Arabic...
Cooperson is fascinated by the eccentricities of each culture's language, as well as the foreign personalities. In Hawaiian, he says, there's no difference between nouns and verbs. So, for instance, the word for "chair" and the word for "sit" would be the same. In Arabic countries, time is...
At first, says Cooperson, it seemed almost inconceivable that people could read a language like Arabic which looked "like gibberish. I thought it was a plot to sell language textbooks. I thought that if you shook them awake in the middle of the night they'd speak English."