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“I don’t read Arabic,” he explains with a tug at his ample moustache when asked if he’s seen the original text of the abstruse volume. “I want to some day.”

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Puns, Politics and Lots of Flying Balls | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

There was, the marshal admits, one incident that did concern him: when one of the group came from the back of the plane forward to use the lavatory in First Class. The FAM timed the man, dressed in a green jumpsuit with Arabic writing on it; he stayed about ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Air Marshal's View of Flight 327 | 8/4/2004 | See Source »

Most of Beirut’s cab drivers are from poor areas in Lebanon’s south or Beirut’s southern suburbs. A week before I arrived in Lebanon at the beginning of June, riots broke out in those same suburbs over a new law that prohibited...

Author: By May Habib, | Title: Returning to Lebanon | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

My summer here may have been much more tranquil if I didn’t know Arabic: I wouldn’t have heard my smart, university-educated cousins complaining about needing wasta to find jobs; I wouldn’t have noticed that the young elite of this society?...

Author: By May Habib, | Title: Returning to Lebanon | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

May Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad...

Author: By May Habib, | Title: Returning to Lebanon | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

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