Word: taleb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Primed with information about the political consciousness of Latin American students, two Algerian student leaders arrived from Lima, Peru, in New York last week for a tour of six American campuses. Mesuwud Aitchalal and Chaib Taleb, the President and Vice-President of the Algerian National Union of Students (UGEMA) were in the U.S. with a double purpose: to propagandize for Algerian independence and to learn first-hand of the strangly parochial and non-political nature of American student life...
...five-day tour took Aitchalal and Taleb to South-western University, Le Moyne, an all-Negro college in Memphis, the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. Sponsored by NSA groups on each campus, they spoke in French to sparse audiences comprised mainly of foreign students, Africans, and French majors anxious to show their facility by painfully framing their questions in ungrammatical French. I shared the podium with them as translator...
...cluttered apartment in Chicago, with a guitar artistically suspended on the wall, a balding graduate student proudly produced his newest acquisition--a recording of genuine Algerian rebel songs taped on the spot in the cave and mountain hide-outs of the partisans. Aitchalal and Taleb listened nostalgically for a few moments--but not for long. They had more important things...