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Like Syria, Palestine and Trans-Jordan, Iraq, watered by the Tigris and Euphrates, was carved from the Arabic-speaking provinces of pre-war Turkey. It owes its existence to Great Britain, which helped create it after World War I, then surrendered its mandate in 1932, leaving Iraq autonomous but allied...
The cosmopolitan British force at Cheren was led, and its every move was planned, by a thin-faced, Mephistophelean-appearing figure, Lieut. General William Platt, 55. An old hand on Britain's practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid...
The telescope, shortly to be in operation, will be named the Jewett Memorial Telescope for James R. Jewett, Professor of Arabic, Emeritus, and his late wife, Margaret Weyerhauser Jewett. A substantial gift from Professor Jewett has made possible the construction of the instrument at this time.
(continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was...
Ethiopia is no Arab-country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt...