We are expecting dusty "
khamsin" winds that started last Thursday accompanied by a sudden rise in temperature.
It unravels a Dionysian land where "tutto era oblio", where the
Khamsin, the dazzling aridness, and the whiteness of stony cemeteries meet the marble blocks of Carrara, which "risplendevano al sole come le nevi eterne"; a land where the dissolution of boundaries finds its match, if irreverently, in a Dantean paradisiacal deluge.
In one case, a 30-year-old engineer, Michaelangelo Mangu, was forcibly disappeared after SPLA arrested him in February in Hai
Khamsin. "We looked for him everywhere, with the security, the governor, and we have had no luck," a colleague of his said.
Designed as a replacement for the Giugiaro-styled, Ghia-bodied Ghibli, the
Khamsin was unlucky in the fact that it arrived just in time for the energy crisis of the day.
The hot and dry
Khamsin wind blows in early summer(April-may) and causes sizeable sandstorms.
Mekler, "Properties of Sharav (
Khamsin) dust: comparison of optical and direct sampling data," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol.
Unfortunately the end came for the Ghibli in 1973 with the introduction of its direct successor the
Khamsin. Although more technically advanced, many would say that what it made up for in gadgets and gizmos was no match for the Ghibli's styling.
Etant donne qu'elle etait violee, par une nuit de vent violent, le
khamsin, ou elle etait partie a la recherche de son chat, Noor refuse de porter le blame sur l'etranger venu de l'autre cote de la montagne en jeep.
WHAT'S common to Brickfielder,
Khamsin and Harmattan?
Today a latent poetry echoes in the names we use to distinguish foehn winds from gravity airflows and Katabatic winds from the
Khamsin. Sweet-sounding as Aphrodite's come-hither call or the plashing of a nymph in a stream, the rise and fall of syllables in the Sirocco, the Mistral and the Marin gesture toward the days when a god could stumble toward earth in a fit of drunkenness or reveal a face to a mortal in a moment of pity.
He pointed out that the equinox is usually accompanied in the Arab region by the weather phenomenon known as
khamsin, which is a dry, hot and dusty local wind caused by five low-pressure fronts affecting North Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, the Arabia peninsula and southern Iraq.
"Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse."
Khamsin: Journal of Revolutionary Socialists of the Middle East 8 (1981): 5-26.
