The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.

The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.

Moreover, an excessive focus on the culture-specific might reinstate the very hierarchy it is intended to dislodge, and it might lack broader relevance or theorizability.

In the middle distance several foolhardy souls in wet suits were surfing toward some foamy outbursts on the rocky headland; nearer in, a scattering of paddlers was being continually and, it seemed, happily engulfed by explosive waves.