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...study political economy at Columbia University, Ali Baba, 20, son of the Sheikh Mahumud of Suleimaniye, Irak, arrived in Manhattan from Alexandria, Egypt, where he spent the last four years in college. Said Ali Baba: "Please let me say that no years shall ever compare with the five years I was with the great chieftain, my father, when he made war in the Kurd Mountains...
...intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi el Zaharawi, who promptly gave ?200 to an anti-mission fund. This reporters took to mean that the Government was interested, that things looked bad for the Christians. Half a dozen U. S. Protestant societies and two churches-Seventh Day Adventists and United Presbyterians-have missions in Egypt. Last...
...famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March 9. 1931). Last week the U. S. State Department received its only notice of King Ibn Saud's doings from his Minister in London, the Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Calling at the U.S. Embassy the Sheikh suavely announced that "in accordance with the wishes of his subjects, His Majesty . . . has graciously consented" to change the name of the Land of Saud...
...fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed, 93 wounded, captured or missing. It was the bloodiest fight since red-bearded Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
...Three mummies were found in the vicinity of the tomb of Ramose, vizier of Akhnaton (Amenophis IV), the great king of the 18th Dynasty who attempted to change the religion of Egypt to monotheism. The discovery was made by Dr. Robert Mond, English archeologist, in the region called Sheikh-Abd-el-Qurna, in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the mummies, excellently preserved, were the bodies of a goldsmith and a priestess, his wife. The woman's clothing was wrapped with the body and was found to be practically identical with that worn by the Fellaheen women today...