khamsin
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A third category of khamsin sufferers have more complex reactions.
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Last week, as Jerusalem suffered under the worst khamsin since 1893, tempers and guns blazed along Israel's borders.
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The shaky cease-fire shifted attention back to Lebanon's complicated political situation, which was about as impenetrable as the khamsin.
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Under Ottoman Empire law, murder was held more pardonable if committed while the khamsin was blowing.
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The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett
