Word: nagie
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...Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
Finally the momentum of violence and the logic of events results in the death of Nagi Daiffulah, an Arab worker and UFW member who was clubbed to death by a Kern county deputy. One day later, Juan De La Cruz, a 60-year-old striker who had been with the union from its beginning, was shot through the heart by a strikebreaker. Pearey follows Juan's wake and funeral, showing the casket draped in a black flag with the red UFW eagle carried down miles of dusty roads past the fields he struggled for. Mourners stretch far down the road...
...were almost all in. The Communists had lost more than 80% of their strength in a sudden, numbing landslide. They managed to hold only ten of their former 41 seats against a towering new total of 120 seats for a democratic Congress Party coalition. Andhra's Communist leader, Nagi Reddi, was beaten. India's national Communist leader, Ajoy Ghosh, was reduced to humble mumbling about "my weaknesses and shortcomings." The fundamental Communist strategy of conquering free India legally through the ballot box, into which six years of painstaking work had gone, lay defeated and discredited...