There was the ‘Iron Sheik’- a prototypical quasi-Arabic heel who played off the Iran Hostage Crisis & appealed to the ethnic stereotypes that still dog pro wrestling to this day. His great foe was the heel-turned-face Sergeant Slaughter- a huge brawling ‘supposed’ drill instructor from ...
As defined in the 1994 revision, allergen names consist of the first three letters from the genus, one letter from the species epithet, followed by an Arabic numeral. Occasionally, a letter is added to the genus (Sola for tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, as Sol was used for multiple ant specie...
A strange medley of English, Arabic, and Mandarin filled the summer air as my friends and I gathered there every evening, and dialogues at sunset soon became moments of bliss. In our conversations about cultural differences, the possibility of an afterlife, and the plausibility of far-fetched ...
Misconception 1:"Entire North Africa natively speaks Arabic.” There is a general misconception that the entire people of North Africa speak Arabic. Morocco and Algeria are typical examples of this misconception. Fact:One-third of Moroccans and one-quarter of Algerians do not speak Arabic as the...
Styled in a t-shirt, shorts, and a worn, dark green lanyard, I sprint across the quad from the elective ‘Speaking Arabic through the Rassias Method’ to ‘Knitting Nirvana’. This afternoon is just one of many at Governor’s School East, where I have been transformed from a high school...