bedouins Gazelle

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  1. djinn
    an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran
    Storyteller: But at story time in the darkness of the evening, Halima sometimes let herself dream of her promised one, Atiyah, whose name meant “Gift of God” As the story of djinns and princes loosed her thoughts, Halima closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep…….
  2. Bedouin
    a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs
    Yuki: Set in the desert of North Africa, near the modern day city of Fez, this is the story of two young Bedouin’s promised to wed each other at birth.
  3. wane
    a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
    He told me to go …to hunt lizards in the desert, to raid our enemy tribe the Shummari…and to stay away, at least until the moon has waxed and waned again, until his brother Saladeen has left our tents

    Narrator L: Halima could see Atiyah now in the faint starlight that filtered through the blowing dust.
  4. jackal
    Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog
    Narrator T: Halima was angry and her hair rose on her scalp like a jackal’s.
  5. crusade
    a series of actions tending toward a particular end
    Aminata: They are caught up in the warring of different tribes and also the battles of much larger campaigns, the medieval crusades.
  6. lizard
    relatively long-bodied reptile with legs and a tapering tail
    He told me to go …to hunt lizards in the desert, to raid our enemy tribe the Shummari…and to stay away, at least until the moon has waxed and waned again, until his brother Saladeen has left our tents

    Narrator L: Halima could see Atiyah now in the faint starlight that filtered through the blowing dust.
  7. compassionate
    showing or having sympathy for another's suffering
    Halima: (praying) Hamdillah, the merciful, the compassionate… (cursing) Majnun….Madman!
  8. caliph
    the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state
    The caliph wants men…

    Halima: You are not a man yet!
Created on Tue Apr 12 15:32:01 EDT 2011

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