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MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT-RUSSIA: Beautiful Bay Ridge | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...reminds me," cried Minister Youssef, "of Rås el-Barr beach in Egypt at the mouth of the Nile. The shallow water suits me because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda while he vividly describes how he founded the Egyptian consumer co-operatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT-RUSSIA: Beautiful Bay Ridge | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

Nearly hidden beneath last week's shootings was the deeper issue of an Arab family feud. Between the great Arab families, the Husseini and Nashashibi, bitter rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Head & Rear | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Mayors of Arab villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond an Incident | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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