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Bell first began to suspect that Nasser was the man to watch shortly after the coup d'etat of July 23, 1952. Says Bell: "We started hearing the phrase El Bekbashi constantly around army headquarters. El Bekbashi wanted this done . . . has ordered . . . Bekbashi means lieutenant colonel in Arabic. El...
The Spark. Though Sultan was Ibn Saud's 16th son, he was one of his favorites. Unlike some of the other 43 sons, he was able and hard working. As mayor of the capital city of Riyadh, he had done a first-rate job, and in negotiations with Aramco...
Cahaly's love of Syrian music flows from his childhood in Damascus. He was brought up in a parochial school with a mere 66 hours a week of classes and later worked for a leading import export firm of the city. He came to the United States to go to...
Cahaly, as a friend, adds warmth to his honesty in business. Brought up in a house where he never remembered his father even raising his voice against him, he has transferred this gentle manner to his family and friends. Every Christmas he receives hundreds of cards from men who have...
Though he made haste, he had an intuitive awareness of his people's gait. The old Turkish alphabet had become an esoteric nightmare of cumbersome Arabic scrawls; its difficulty contributed to illiteracy at home and incomprehensibility abroad. Kemal talked first to U.S. Educator John Dewey, then sat down with...