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 >> >> ********************************* Matthew Shenoda Department of American Indian Studies College of Ethnic Studies ********************************* San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 ********************************* Office: Humanities 243 Phone: 415-338-3490 Email: shenoda-AT-sfsu.edu --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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