Word: muezzins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Overseeing all this is an investment staff of 20 employees from Saudi Arabia and seven other countries. His payroll also includes a former White House communications expert--this is, after all, a man who spends $80,000 a month on phone bills--as well as a camel caretaker, a muezzin who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer from a minaret, and 18 soccer players whom Alwaleed pays to play games with his son, at his son's private field...
...looks like strangely beautiful 19th century machinery. This idea of the mechanical as beautiful is developed in the music, which is much more industrial-sounding than Orb's previous work. U.f.orb was remarkable for its blend of technology and natural sounds--running water, gurgling Russian voices and an Arabic muezzin--but Pomme Fritz focuses more on the technology of the music. Some of Orb's trademark water sounds remain, but Pomme Fritz has a more metallic and apocalyptic flavor...
...squabbling; it is growing. Stadiums in Moscow and Leningrad have been filled for revival meetings, and later this month 850 activists from around the country will meet to plan evangelistic strategy. Soviet Muslims are likewise heartened. "A revival of Islam is taking place," says Hajji Rais, the muezzin of Moscow. He notes, however, that his mosque is alone in serving 600,000 believers in the area...