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Middle Eastern Studies
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105
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05/07/2007

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Qasim Amin was an Egyptian man who worked and wrote on the behalf of...?
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Women
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The adaptation of western modes of literature passed through a three-part process; translation, adaptation, and then...?
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surrealism
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The oldest and most revered literary genre in the MIddle East was (and is)...?
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Poetry
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Islam gave Arabian women the right to...?
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Inherit
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Countries in the MIddle East that do not have oil in their own ground make money on oil sometimes by having these...?
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Refineries and pipelines
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Tahtawi's acount of his trip to Europe in the 1800's is this kind of native Middle Eastern literature...?
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Rihla
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In the Nahda period, this type of material was first translated...?
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Military textbooks
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This man tried to unify all four Sunni legal codes into one...?
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Muhammad Abduh
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Naguib Mahfouz is from this country...?
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Egypt
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The name of the god in Zoroastrianism is...?
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Ahura Mazda
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Muhammad's deeds and words are recorded in the "reportss" called...?
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Hadith
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Ali's son, Husayn, died in the Battle of Karbala against the Caliph's troops in the year...?
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680
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Jinn are made from pure..?
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Fire
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Shiites sometimes rely on this tactic to blend into their surroundings so they will not be recognized as Shiites...?
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Taqiyya
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The writting system in ancient Egypt was...?
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Hieroglyphics
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The "path" a Sufi follows toward possible Fana called a...?
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Tariqa
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The migration of Muslims from Mecca to Medina to flee persecution occured in the year...?
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622
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Storytellers are able to remember the tales through tricks in the stories such as...?
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Repetitive phrases
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Middle Eastern writters often set their works in non-descript places so that their work is...?
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Universaly applicable
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This man is a famous Egyptian choreographer, the "Fred Astaire of the Middle East"...?
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Mahmood Reda
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"Family House", a soap opera in Egypt was successful in doing this...?
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Educating viewers
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The newest thin in soap operas are 30 to 50 second soap opera "episodes" delivered on these...?
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Cell phones
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"WOmen of Sand and Myth" was written by this uthor...?
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Hanan al-Shaykh
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Suzanne dislikes this aspect of life in the desert...?
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The dress
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Maaz gets this disease on a trip to Sri Lanka...?
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Syphilis
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Men in the novel are often discussed in association with this...?
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Money
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Women in "Mrs. President" often quoted a hadith of Muhammad that says that "Man ascends from...?"
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Woman's lap
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Many women in "Mrs. President" felt a need do this...?
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Defend their intelligence
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Musslims pray five times a day toward th Ka'aba in this city...?
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Mecca
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The earliest pre-Islamic Arabian society was based around...?
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Tribes
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Nazik al-Malaika, an Iraqi, was famous for doing this...?
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Devising free verse poetry in Arabic
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The new age that each political groiup dreamed of one day coming was often depicted as...
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A new dawn
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The lamp in "The Saint's Lamp," is famous for doing this...?
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Healing
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In 1913 Muhammad Husayn Haykal published this, the first Arabic novel...?
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Zaymab
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Committed literature is highly influenced and informed by this political ideology...?
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Marxism
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In the Middle East soap operas sexual content is often replaced with this...?
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Comedy
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Hanan al-Shaykh is from this country...?
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Lebanon
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"The Arabian Nights" today are for the most part seen as...?
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Childrens literature
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The sailor in the Arabian Nights we read ends up in a earthen lair with a young man which he ends up...?
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Killing
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Many countries in the Middle East tried to remain neutral in the Cold War
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True
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Pre-Nahda literature, even science books, might be interrupted by poems and anecdotes?
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True
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Pre-Nahda literature, even science books, might be interrupted by poems and anecdotes?
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True
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The British set up the first radio station in Palestine by the mid-1930's...?
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True
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All of the women who signed up to run for President of Iran in 2001 were elderly...?
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False
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World struggles such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movements in the United States were acknowleged by MIddle Eastern writers...?
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False
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Nawal as-Saadawi is an Egyptian novelist and feminist...?
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True
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Women have never written prison memoirs...?
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False
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Islamic prayer is led (up front) by an imam...?
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True
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Shiites believe their Imama must be a descendant of Ali and Fatimah...?
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True
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Muhammad passed away in the year 632 C.E...?
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True
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The proper attitude for prayer and reflection on the Quran in Islam is called Niyya...?
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True
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An Islamic school is called is called a madrasa...?
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True
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The shahada is the closest thing to a creed (statement of faith) in Islam...?
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True
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Bahaism is one of the world's relatively newer religions...?
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True
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Mosques are not just for prayer, but are used for other events...?
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True
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Literary salons were one of few places where genders mixed...?
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true
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The literary salon of 20th century Egypt not only propagated good language and literatur, but also good manners, ethical behavior, and elite lifestyles...?
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True
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Famous Arab male writers often attended women-led literary salons...?
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True
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Literary salons were very often run by persons of the lowest classes...?
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False
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Western novels were used by Middle Easterners as models for their own works...?
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True
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Isreal has yet to produce a novelist...?
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False
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The Lebanese Civil War occurred between 1975 and 1991...?
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True
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"Sirat Beni Hilal", about a hero Abu Zayd, usually takes over 500 hours to tell...?
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False
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It is typical in the Arabian NIghts for tales to be embedded in tales until one forgets what the first tales are about...?
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True
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Because of costs, several Middle East countries may create a soap opera together...?
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True
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Zaynab, Ali's daughter, is deeply revered by Shiis...?
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True
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"Women of Sand and Myrrh" is set in the country of Algeria...?
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False
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The genre of the novel very quickly developed and spread in the Middle East...?
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True
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MIddle Eastern writers are famous for making lots of money...?
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False
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Sirah tales are long epics about important desert tribes...?
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True
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Name a rule for the proper handling of the Quran...?
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Niyya
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The entire community of Muslims is known as...
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Ummah
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Name two of the five pillars of Islam...?
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Shahada and Hajj
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Zaynab al-Ghazaali is a spokes woman for this Islamic group..?
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Tawfiq al-Hakim learned much about drama aborad in this country...?
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France
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Common theme in political cartoons...?
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Criticism of the government
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OTher than soap operas what other themes are seen from wesern tv shows...?
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Game shows
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In "Mrs. President", a lot of Iranian women see this woman as an example of proper Muslim womans behavior...?
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Khadija
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The Arabian Nights come from India, Arabia, and...?
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Iran/Persia
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The Empty quarter has the largest type of this desert...?
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Sweeping sand
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Two important liquids in the MIddle East are...?
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Water and Oil
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Trade developed originally...?
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Along water ways
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Ancient religion was mostly...?
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Polytheistic
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Semetic is a term to describe...?
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Those with semetic languages
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Term used for fate...?
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Nihilism
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Women used to be treated like...?
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Property
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Hanza was know for this type of writting...?
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Ritha
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Orthodox focuses on ...?
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Writing
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Hanif was an early...?
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MOnotheist
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MOhammad was probably _______ before a monotheist...?
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POlytheist
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Sufism is not popular in most areas...?
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True
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Sufism is not a sect of Islam...?
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True
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Sufi services have music...?
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True
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Sufi Poetry uses many metaphores...?
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True
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Caliphs had books written for their...?
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Sons
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Plagarism was common...?
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True
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Joe Sacco
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author of graphic novels
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Maria Elias Ziyadeh
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led literary salons
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Naguib Mahfouz
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nobel prize 1988, poet
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Forough Farrokhzad
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wrote captive and dropped out of tenth grade
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Forough Farrokhzad
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wrote captive and dropped out of tenth grade
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1948
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Isreal is created
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1979
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Iranian revolution
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Hafiz
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Persian sufi poet
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Darwish
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poet used quran
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