khamsin
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The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara.
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Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin.
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The German drive, which had swept across Libya as fast and as hot as the desert wind called khamsin, was apparently aimed straight for Alexandria.
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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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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
