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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49891)	8/29/2006 8:58:24 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 50167

thou great silly oaf of all the world and of the netherworld and, before our God, a blockhead, a swine's snout Iqbal, I'll tell ya, those Kosaks really knew how to offend <ggg> You think the Sultan was pissed? ...

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49891)	8/31/2006 11:27:48 AM
From: JD	Respond to of 50167

One of the best known and loved authors in Egypt, ------------------------------------------------ CAIRO, Egypt - The country's leading Muslim clerics led mourners in special prayers Thursday for Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, some of whose work was condemned by Islamic extremists as sacrilegious... ...The 1959 "Children of Gebelawi" — or "Children of Our Alley" by its Arabic title — told the story of a family patriarch and his sons. The father represents God and the sons represent the series of prophets that Islam believes includes Jesus and Moses and culminates in Muhammad. The book was banned in Egypt. Islam frowns on any literary depiction of Muhammad, except for straightforward biography or poems of praise. But even more rankling to conservatives is that Mahfouz added a final son who represents science, suggesting he was a prophet after Muhammad... ...The Nobel prize, which Mahfouz won in 1988, introduced to the world a man who is seen by many as the Middle East's greatest writer, with 34 novels, hundreds of short stories and essays, dozens of movie scripts and five plays over a 70-year career... news.yahoo.com