Videotape from a CNN cameraman who accompanied the American soldiers showed an Arabic sign on a wall with the words "Al Qaeda Organization."

Meanwhile, I went over to the night-clock and examined the extraordinary Arabic signs and pictographs with increasing bewilderment and pessimism.

Merchants said they were paid $250 per shooting day, and most agreed to leave the Arabic signs up until the crew returned in April.

A McDonald's there serves halal Chicken McNuggets; Walgreens has Arabic signs in its aisles.

He made the Arabic sign against the evil eye, "Allah save me from witches!

Some could be expressed using four different Arabic signs; others could not be expressed at all.

"Now enter the Arabic signs at the head of your table," Solomon prompted.

The villa housing the Fulbright Commission, for example, has a number of English and Arabic signs out front marking it as a place where Americans gather.

Here and there tiny groups of newly painted shops carry Arabic signs as a fresh wave of underprivileged immigrants probes into the ghetto.

Trencrom turned into the shadowed mouth of an alley identified as Wadi al-Ghotrawallat, Street of Crocodiles, by the Arabic sign high on one brick wall.