Word: nadia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellow honor students, Stepho and Nadia fell in love. When not taking Nadia to dances or to the movies, Stepho spent his spare time in such places as Faisal's Snack Bar on the Avenue Bliss, where hot-eyed students argued Pan-Arab politics. Stepho daydreamed of being a jet pilot in the service of Nasser and Arab nationalism...
...ragged camps. But not the Salti and Stephan families. Though Greek Orthodox, they fled with their Moslem compatriots into Jordan during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, abandoning profitable businesses. There, Saba Salti slowly re-established his construction supply stores and was able to send his pretty daughter Nadia to college in Beirut. Theodore Stephan moved on from Jordan, became a prosperous insurance broker, and sent his son Stepho to the American University in Beirut...
...months ago slim, brown-eyed Nadia, now 19, returned to Jordan where a good government job awaited her. Fiancé Stepho Stephan, 22, followed, and their pleased families announced a fall wedding. But last week the pampered pair stood not at an altar but at the bar of justice, on trial for their lives...
Four wrapped sticks of dynamite were found in Nadia's purse. Both confessed to terrorist activity against the regime of King Hussein, but only, said Nadia later, after "the police stripped me naked, beat me on the legs and thighs and threatened me with rape." Among three others accused with them was a young Moslem terrorist named Ibrahim, who came into court showing the welts of beatings, and able to speak only in whispers because of blows at his throat...
After World War II anti-Jewish sentiment grew in Baghdad, and Sabah's Egyptian wife schemed successfully to get Nadia out of the house. In 1946 Nadia took her son and moved to the Jewish part of Palestine, which became Israel two years later. In Tel Aviv, where she bought a hotel and other property and sent Ahlam to a Jewish school, Nadia concealed her family connections even from her son until last week. Nuri's grandson, by Judaic law a Jew because his mother is Jewish, is due to be conscripted into the Israeli army within...