Word: effendis
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...Koestler's novel an Arab effendi sums up the Palestine Arab attitude: "I care not for their hospitals and their schools. This is our country, you understand! We want no foreign benefactors. We want not to be patronized. We want to be left alone, you understand! We want to live our own way and we want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey...
Problems. No one knew better than the three men how great were the obstacles confronting any architects of Arab unity: the dynastic rivalries of the Middle East, its feudal economies, the age-old jealousy between the men of the desert (Bedouin) and of the city (effendi). And there is the ever-present prickly problem of the Jewish and Christian minorities...
...Damascus this week a 300-lb., illiterate ex-god named Suleiman Effendi Murshed, 38, eased himself for the first time into his seat in the Chamber of Deputies and prepared to think politically. Cannily aligning himself with the moderates, he set out to show the folks back in the bare, brutal hills behind Latakia in northern Syria that their god had done well to trade in his robes for a Deputy's toga. He and every other Deputy, new & old, had one program: independence from the French...
Chafing under British rule, a palace clique is suspected of pro-Axis, particularly pro-Italian, sympathies. Parts of the effendi class like to listen to Axis promises of advancement and power. Peasants have been propagandized with wild tales of hoarding and looting by British troops. With bomb blasts shaking Alexandria, the time for anti-British action is ripe...
...French Foreign Legion. Years of pumping machine gun bullets into Syria's more savage tribes finally brought peace in 1927. Under French dominance, the so- called "Syrian Republic" was proclaimed and provided with a Constitution and a Sheik Premier. It was he, the potent Sheik Taj-ed-Din Effendi, who made Syria news last week...