Word: hassan
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...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
Enter Ahmed. Ismahan's days, like Amal's days, were gaudy with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
...London's first mosque, planned as a place of worship for the Moslem soldiers & sailors in England and as the "nucleus of a great mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built after the war," was opened by Hassan Nachat Pacha, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain...
...Moroccan puppet, the Nazis were busy buttering up 63-year-old Moulay Abdelazis, ousted by the French in 1908, with promises of the Sultanate of a United Morocco that would include Tangier as well as French and Spanish Morocco. Germans in Tangier feted his nephew, Moulay-El-Hassan, the Caliph of Spanish Morocco. Backing up the Nazis was the potent ultra-nationalist Watan party, who want a unified Morocco...
Robust young King Farouk was getting accustomed last week to disasters in his Government. Last time His Majesty opened Parliament he had just cocked an ear to Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha, who was reading the Speech from the Throne, when the Premier dropped dead (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with...