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The Lasting Gift of Christmas |
| Issue: 1984, Volume 17, Issue 5 |
| Subject: Christianity |
| Author: Haddad, Hassan |
| Issue Description: For historian Hassan Haddad this issue is not only a return to his childhood memories of Christmas in northern Lebanon as the son of a Protestant minister, it is also a return of 1,400 years to the Qu’ran and its beautiful retelling of the Annunciation and virgin birth, of 2,000 years to the Gospel stories of Matthew and Luke, of centuries earlier to the Sumerians and Egyptians, the Nabateans and Zoroastrians, and beyond the Middle East, to Asia and the birth of Buddha. Along the way, Professor Haddad, who teaches at St. Xavier College in Chicago, is not uncritical of the ways Christmas has been exploited by one group or another. Still, he finds in the Christmas story, a universal longing. |
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Military Peacekeeping in the Middle East |
| Issue: 1983, Volume 16, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Military|War/Conflict |
| Author: Mulligan, William |
Issue Description: Individual commandeers of U.N. peacekeeping forces have written of their experiences in the Middle East. A compilation of their experiences has yet to appear in English, and practically all of the individual accounts are now out of print. William Mulligan, who has spent most of his 35 years in the Middle East in the area of Government Relations for the Arabian American Oil Company, was able to contact some of the major participants. Their reflections add relevancy to a history from which the
United States and the multinational force now in Lebanon can learn a great deal. |
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Yasser Arafat: The Man and His People |
| Issue: 1982, Volume 15, Issue 3 |
| Subject: Arafat|P.L.O. |
| Author: Halsell, Grace |
| Issue Description: Despite his worldwide recognition as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, little is known of Yasser Arafat’s early life, his education, his politics, his religion, his living habits, etc. To fill in some of these blanks, Grace Halsell went twice to Beirut, once in December 1981, and again in April 1982. Halsell is the author of 11 books, including “A Biography of Charles Evers,”“Bessie Yellowhair,”“Soul Sister,”and “Journey to Jerusalem.” |
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