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Thread #6453 Message #38313
Posted By: Jerry Friedman
16-Sep-98 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: beans in my nose?
Subject: RE: beans in my nose?
And on to Arabic pedantry. Don't leave out the "Abu-". It means "son of"; I assume Mumia added the name "Abu-Jamal" when he became the father of a boy named Jamal. That's the custom in (much of?) the Arabic world.