#  In This Show, an Islamic World Brimming With Innovation 

 





December 06, 2010

 

 

Author: Clyde Haberman

Source: The New York Times

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/nyregion/07nyc.html?\_r=1&ref=religion\_and\_belief](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/nyregion/07nyc.html?_r=1&ref=religion_and_belief)

In David Lean’s majestic film “Lawrence of Arabia,” the beleaguered Arab leader Prince Feisal reminds his British Army adviser, T. E. Lawrence, of a glory that once was.

“You know, Lieutenant,” he says, “in the Arab city of Córdoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village.”



 

 

 



 

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