Word: hajar
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...rises like a fiery red ball from the blue-black depths of the Arabian Sea. As darkness retreats across the Hajar mountains, the barren landscape changes from gray-brown to beige and copper. It is the birth of a new day in the Sultanate of Oman, a legendary home of Sinbad the Sailor and fabled source of frankincense for the Queen of Sheba. In this New Mexico-size nation, located on the cutting edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the dawn light- and-shadow show is a spectacular curtain raiser to a host of attractions + that have made...
...monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose foundations precede the age of Islam guard entry to its valleys...
...seize the throne in a coup that ousted the Qajar dynasty until 25 years later. There is a more likely explanation: Mostafa was killed in a fight with another landlord over irrigation water. In a remarkably daring act for a Persian woman of that period, Ruhollah's mother, Hajar Saghafi, journeyed to Arak and testified at the trial of her husband's murderer, who was found guilty and executed...
...Paula Hajar as the streetwalker and Peter Cignetti (in two roles) as the cop and as a phys. ed. professor give outstanding performances. but some of the other acting jobs reminded me of high school variety show productions. Lehrman did, however, use the relatively sparse facilities of the Ex effectively...
Whitman Hall and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Paula Hajar of Jordon W and West Roxbury; North House, Marjie Piret of Wolbach Hall and Paris, France; South House, Anne Righter Thornton of 11 Peabody Terrace, Cambridge...