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Basrah

  1. Dated spelling of Basra, a major city in Iraq
    • 2010, Mary Bruins Allison, Sandra J. Shaw, Doctor Mary in Arabia: Memoirs:
      It so happened that Christmas was near and I was invited to go to Basrah, so I used that for an excuse to not make an aftercall. Months later, when I was sitting in the hospital one day, a woman came throwing her black abba over my head.