Arabic-L:LING:khawaja query

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: khawaja query

I suppose no European who has been to Sudan will have been able to
avoid being called 'khawaja'. Sudanese friends insisted that it is a
neutral term simply used to designate someone with light skin, which
reminded me of attitudes to the word 'negro'. What I would like to
know is the origin of the word and how it found its way to Sudan. I'm
guessing it came with the Turks and was used with the British,
originally as a term of respect.

Regards,

Haroon Shirwani

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