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A new student at Al Azhar buys himself a high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a...
Why the change? Washington's best guess was that Novikov was needed else where, and that it didn't much matter who was the Kremlin's office boy in Washington. Novikov speaks good Arabic. He was Minister in Cairo during the war, and he got behind the...
Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
*From an Arabic word meaning a Mohammedan's long cloth coat.
All these characteristics are present in The Magician. The title story is about a world-famed theatrical producer who does not realize how thin his life has become until he stumbles on two of his servants making love and lustily gorging their bellies on the leftovers from one of his...