File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0112, message 109


Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800
Subject: Re: any idea?
From: Matthew Shenoda <shenoda-AT-sfsu.edu>


Robert is right about Al Sudan...  Some countries are "The..." others are
not. ... Ethiopia for example is Al Habashi, Egypt on the other hand is just
Musr. no Al... 

M


>> Saeed - as simple, surely, as this:  Sudanese call their country Al-Sudan/
>> As-Sudan - The Sudan. (the original Arabic name was Bilad as-Sudan, Land of
>> the Blacks )...
>> robert
>> 
>>>>> saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au 12/20/01 08:40AM >>>
>> greg, do you have any idea why "Sudan,"  a country, is referred to as "the
>> Sudan"?
>> 
>> saeed
>> 
>> 
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