Word: bairam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arab members of his bureau had already celebrated Courban Bairam, their holy festival; the Copts and Orthodox adherents would not celebrate theirs until Jan. 7. From past experience Zinder knew that by some miracle of cookery the turkey would come out right. The cook, who abhorred pots, would beat together a pair of Shell gasoline tins and roast the big bird over "one of those vertical blow torches known as Primus stoves." Nevertheless, there would be open house Christmas Day at the Zinder's home on the Nile, and the weather promised to be typical for Egypt in December...
...first time in 13 centuries, a group of Mohammedans last week made the pilgrimage to Mecca (fifth religious duty of every True Believer) by air.* From Algiers two planes carried 25 Moslems to Mecca for Bairam, solemn annual festival at which every pilgrim sacrifices a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel...