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Mahmoud El-Kati
Lecturer, educator, writer and historian
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The Frenchman is right: "Language is like God turned loose in the flesh." The ability to seize words suggests the ability to seize images and the power behind them. Words, depending on how you use them, can be very curious things.
—Mahmoud El-Kati, Lecturer, educator, writer and historian, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, November 23, 2005

Posted on November 28, 2005 at 11:00 AM

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