Word: gomlokiya
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...idea might have seemed funny at the time. Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim wrote a magazine article on what he sarcastically called "the Arab world's contribution to political science." He dubbed it gomlokiya, squeezing together the Arabic words for republic and monarchy. His point was how the new President of Syria had assumed office automatically after his father died, even though the country hadn't been a hereditary kingdom for centuries. Readers also chuckled at the pun: it rhymes with molokhiya, a word for a vegetable soup that Egyptians use with comic effect to describe a mess...
...Ibrahim to prevent his center from monitoring last November's parliamentary elections. The center documented a host of irregularities during the 1995 balloting, which led losing candidates to challenge the ruling party's victory in court. While it forms no part of the charges, many suspect that Ibrahim's gomlokiya wisecrack did him in. That may seem odd, since the President has laughed at the notion that his son is a pharaoh-in-waiting, and the professor has been on cordial terms with the First Family. Ibrahim taught Mubarak's wife and both of the couple's sons...
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