Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was everything Morocco's modem nationalists despised. He was France's chief collaborator. For decades his Berber warriors had helped impose French wishes on the restive Arabs of the cities, and engineered the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. His power was feudal; his revenues, ranging from levies on Marrakech's prostitutes to commissions on every commercial transaction in his domain, had made him rich beyond any man's dreams...
...grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
...Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major General Ali el Hayari, 38, one of the top Arab Legion commanders in the days of the British Glubb Pasha, and a strong supporter of the King, had taken over as Jordan's new army chief...
...unshaven and by committing himself wholeheartedly to the Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...
...Pasha." That afternoon Menderes, who for years has suggested that Inonu is little better than a superannuated blunderer, rose at his front desk to praise "my pasha" as "a statesman who holds an assured place in history as one of Turkey's greatest men." Then he said: "The government is willing to consider all the issues presented by the Opposition if they are presented in moderate ways...