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Zafrulla is a deeply committed antiCommunist, has privately often chided the U.S. for lavishing more attention and money on vacillating neutrals than on such strong supporters as his own Pakistan. A devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian...
El-Azm, a wealthy, quadrilingual (Arabic, French, English, Turkish), landowner and industrialist, is one of Syria's most bizarre figures. He was Premier under the despised Vichy government, later became known as "the Red millionaire" for negotiating a $300 million Soviet-Czech arms deal as Defense Minister in 1957...
Tradition demands that the King of Morocco have at least one wife-he is entitled to four-before he accedes to the throne. Thus loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his...
The Maronites were never conquered by the Ottoman Empire, which granted them political autonomy in the late 19th century. The sect has expanded and prospered; Maronites now control many of the banks and newspapers in Lebanon. Under Meouchi, they have built many new churches and opened new seminaries, now have...
Franklin's first effort was a 23? Arabic version of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe, published in Cairo in 1953. The first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books...