Word: fellahin
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...stream of migration far beyond the dreams of World War I Zionists. About 400,000 homeless Jews who survived Hitler's crematories and death squads (about six million were killed during the war) want to leave Europe, and most of them want to go to Palestine. Wretched Arab Fellahin, the peasant workers, have angrily watched their landlords sell Arab lands to the Jews at inflated prices. This meant even fewer poor acres for the impoverished Arabs. The Arab landlords and princes have angrily watched the Jews upset Palestine's traditional feudal ways. In the upsurge of Arab nationalism...
Trinity Saved. Persecution was the normal expectation of the Copts for over a thousand years. When St. Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
Effendis and fellahin gossiped excitedly about the news, wondered if Nationalist Nahas Pasha's dismissal might be connected with the Pan-Arab conference, which wound up its sessions in Alexandria last week. Nahas's downfall had come just a day after his triumphant radio message to the Arab peoples of the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan, he announced, had agreed to join a League of Independent Arab States "to achieve the welfare of all Arab countries and safeguard their independence against all aggression." Had Pan-Arabia been born at last...
Millions of fellahin knew her by her cinema name, Ismahan. They preferred her passionate acting and singing to Hollywood's best, Westerns included...
Many Egyptians blame the epidemic on the British, claim the British brought Anopheles gambiae, the most dreaded malaria-carrying mosquito, to the area via Nubia from the Sudan. They also blame the British for buying up Egypt's food, causing undernourishment which makes the fellahin highly susceptible to disease. Actually, the British buy no corn at all from Egypt, buy no wheat without permission from the Government. Real reason the fellahin are starving: they get only about 2O? a day to feed themselves and their families, from landlords who run the region on the feudal system. Now even...