Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor McLaughlin will be accompanied by Ghassam Tuivieny of Syria, graduate student in Government, in a discussion of the topic. "Plans for Palestine--What is the True Solution...
Committee Five: Administrative & Budgetary Matters (first and second annual budgets). Chairman: Syria's Faris Al Khoury...
...Near East shown in several of Agatha Christie's thrillers (Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile) was acquired at firsthand, as her first travel book now proves. It is a breezy, completely unsinister tale of a couple of winters she spent before the war in Syria, where her husband, Archaeologist Max Mallowan of the British Museum, went...
...course of recounting her adventures, Author Christie tells a good deal about Syria, about archaeology, and about herself. Christie fans will find some clues to the origin of various matters in her mystery stories of the period. There is, for example, the gentle cult of the Yezidis, some of whom are hired as diggers. They worship Shaitan (Satan), whom they believe God has placed in charge of the world. No Christie reader will fail to recognize the prototype of Mr. Shaitana, a curiously devilish figure in Christie's Cards on the Table...
...Istanbul Woman's College, the American College of Sofia, the American School for Boys at Baghdad, the American University of Beirut, International College (also at Beirut), Athens College, Damascus College in Syria (founded in September...