Word: khartoum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Seven years ago, when he was 22, Legson Kayira completed a 2,500-mile trek, mostly on foot, from his native Nyasa village to the U.S. consulate at Khartoum, where he asked for and received an opportunity to study in America. Since then he has moved on from Skagit Valley Junior College in Washington State, via the University of Washington, to Cambridge, England. In his autobiography, I Will Try (TIME, April 30, 1965), he told with disarming simplicity how he got there. In this, his first novel, he tells no less appealingly where he began...
...fever was high enough already. Cascading around the U.S. embassies and cultural centers in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Benghazi, Tunis, Algiers, Amman and Khartoum, the ever-ready Arab mobs screamed obscenities. Windows were shattered in the Lebanese and Syrian U.S. embassies, and official cars-ignited by the mobs-burned fiercely in embassy compounds...
Uncle v. Nephew. Though he is a great-grandson of the Mahdi whose howling hordes overran General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, Sadik has shown himself to be a man of tolerance. In 1965 he worked closely with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels...
...KHARTOUM, where the White and Blue Niles meet, is the site of one of history's classic confrontations-between the Christian mystic, General "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) and his fanatic Moslem opponent, the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier...
Robert Ardrey is a playwright and film writer (Khartoum) who has taken up anthropology at the top of his voice. Audibility can make for large audiences, and Ardrey has enjoyed them since publication of African Genesis (TIME, Dec. 15, 1961), his first solo expedition into man's past. In that book, on evidence that would arch any cautious anthropologist's eyebrow, Ardrey proved to his own satisfaction that man is a born killer. He toyed with some other revolutionary evolutionary notions too, but he lacked either the time or the background to push them with suitable evangelical zeal...