Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are thousands of such deserted villages in Algeria today. Their roofless houses and empty streets symbolize the plight of the passive Moslem population caught in the middle of the war's crossfire. The result is a social upheaval in which more than a million Moslems have been uprooted-either fleeing bombs or evicted en masse from "forbidden zones" by French attempts to "sterilize" rebel-infested areas...
...people with medieval habits who refuse to use modern laundries or eat anything but pasty couscous, and who sometimes riot when social workers try to bathe their children, the French army's Sections Administratives Specialises officers have done surprisingly well in some spots with the 700,000 regrouped Moslems in their care. Thirty miles south of Algiers the S.A.S. have built from scratch the Village du Sahel. It has modern schools, electricity and running water, army-built stone-and-plaster houses and shops. Its men have found work locally as agricultural laborers or herdsmen. In showcase Sahel, the greatest...
...every successful regrouped village there are at least three in which the Moslems are worse off than before. In some centers the villagers are resettled in tents ringed with barbed wire. Saharan nomads, used to constant roaming, waste away by the hundreds when cooped up in camps. The 400,000 Moslem refugees outside the regrouped camps drift into cities, and rapidly join the ragged, seldom-employed urban proletariat choking the slums...
...best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
...this series, Professor Wolfson traces the growth and interrelationship of Greek, Hebrew, Moslem and Christian pholosophies. All 12 volumes have been written, five have already been published and two more are almost realy for the printer. Wolfson writes all his manuscripts out in longhand ("I'm old fashioned") and then puts them away in the huge file cabinets that adorn his study. When the rough draft of the entire series was written, Wolfson began the slow process of revising each manuscript, some of which he claims not to have looked at in over ten years. But all the rough drafts...