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Only a handful of Middle Eastern communities still speak Aramaic, the language in which Jesus preached. One is the Syrian village of Maloula, most of whose 1,000 inhabitants are Christian. The roots of their everyday speech go back at least to the 10th century B.C.; Aramaic was the language...
Everyone in Maloula is now bilingual in Arabic and Aramaic (which sounds roughly like Hebrew, much as Dutch, say, sounds like German). The villagers seem oblivious to the fact that they are among the last custodians of the language of Jesus. But don't they at least feel a...
Nasser also had difficulty getting weapons from the Soviets, Sadat revealed. On his last visit to Moscow before his death two years ago, he attempted to persuade them to improve Egypt's offensive capability. Nasser returned to Cairo to report that the situation was "a hopeless case." He even...
His name is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, also known by his former name, Lew Alcindor, and he had taken time off from his basketball career to study Arabic at Harvard.
"It was a choice between here and Portland, Oregon, so it wasn't much of a choice really," Jabbar said. "Those were the only places that taught Arabic in the summer."