khamsin

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Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin.

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But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines.

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The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara.

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These victims have few specific complaints beyond an extreme sensitivity to the rapid temperature changes caused by the khamsin.

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Known in Egypt as the khamsin, on the Mediterranean as the sirocco, it is called on the Guinea coast the harmattan.

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