Word: djellaba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knowledge is key to liberation," said Isaac, dressed in a white djellaba, traditional Ethiopian garb. "The denial of Black peoples as humans is at the root of apartheid." The Ethopian-born professor stressed the need for intellectual equality of opportunity in the United States and South Africa through the study of African heritage...
...sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood...
British viewers watched their television screens, transfixed. First came the sound of gunshots, and a woman shrouded in black crumpled to the ground. Then a djellaba-clad executioner raised his gleaming sword for the beheading, and a kneeling figure in white was suddenly red with blood. The scene, from a film titled Death of a Princess, re-enacted the double execution in 1977 of a married Saudi Princess, Mashall, 19, and her unmarried commoner lover for having committed adultery. Witnessed by hundreds in a parking lot in Jeddah, the executions were in accordance with the laws of the Koran. Shown...