Word: salah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazil) or those at table tennis rooting for Chinese Superstar Jiang Jialiang? Veteran Captain Karch Kiraly will lead the U.S. into what could be these Games' final confrontation with the U.S.S.R.: on the volleyball court. While most of the U.S. sleeps, Kenya's Douglas Wakiihuri and Djibouti's Ahmed Salah should be leading home a wide-open marathon field...
...P.L.O. delegation traveled to Egypt last week and won President Hosni Mubarak's support for a plan to "offer through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...
...World War II, the museum building was used by the U.S. Navy, and collections were moved to the attic and the basement. The museum continued to operate out of the basement until 1982 when the building was returned to its initial use. Visitors can currently see part of the Salah Merrill Collection, photos of the Semitic Museum excavations at ancient Carthage (concluded in 1980), ancient statutes, and a variety of ancient artifacts such as oil lamps and glass. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. There is no admission...
...many moons later -- last week -- the judges of Cairo were enraged by the erotic tales. They said 3,500 copies of two unexpurgated editions of The Arabian Nights must be destroyed. For shame, cried many a citizen of Cairo. "If they forbid all works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned a celebrated scribe named Yusuf Idris. But do not despair...
Most of the crumbling monuments are victims of a troublesome combination: salt in the building stone and moisture from the ground and air. Says Salah Ahmed Salah, an expert on the preservation of stone at Cairo University: "Salt crystals are like a sleeping devil. Only when you add moisture do they start to act." The water penetrates the stone, dissolves the salt and in the form of a saline solution migrates back toward the surface. There the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the salts, which recrystallize, forcing apart the grains of stone. The result is a flaking and crumbling surface...